Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders
by loup-vaillant on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @05:22PM
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It is likewise quite easy to throw a rock on the highway from a bridge. What you are really worrying about is new creative ways to kill and destroy.
Yes, hostile input will have to be taken into account. Fortunately, this is easily detectable (just look at the logs). And if people die as the result, it will count as murder. Finally, one does not simply jam sensors from across the planet. You need a physical presence on site, and that's riskier than a remote hack.
Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders
by Noos on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @05:48PM
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Self-driving cars can make it easier to do this systemically, and not even purposefully. The jamming sensors I meant that another car passes by with a radar jammer on, for its intended purpose (jamming police radar sensors for speeding) and it hits the self-driving car too.
A lot of the current driving issues do suck, but they still will suck with self-driving cars, as any computerized system has its own vulnerabilities. It's just they might be systemic and affect a lot more people in ways they can't compensate for.
Or what if an actor uses something like this:
https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/29/now-you-see-me-now-you-don...
that confounds the car's sensors. Self-driving cars have a whole spectrum of attack vectors that human beings don't have.