Truckers Working Alongside Coders Trying to Make Driverless Trucks

Re:Truckers Working Alongside Coders Trying to Make Driverle... by devrandomguy on Thursday June 22, 2017 @05:04PM (#14615353)

Stopping a safe, automated vehicle would be trivial. Just dress up as a road worker, and hold up a stop sign. Do it above a manhole cover, and you have easy access to the bottom of the vehicle. A remote human supervisor might not even notice what was going on.

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Re:Truckers Working Alongside Coders Trying to Make Driverle... by arbuge on Thursday June 22, 2017 @07:10PM (#14615998)

This seems like a vulnerability for human-operated vehicles also.

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Re:Truckers Working Alongside Coders Trying to Make Driverle... by khalilravanna on Thursday June 22, 2017 @06:42PM (#14615877)

Admittedly it seems just as trivial to mitigate with some more sensors e.g. weight sensors to detect the load being modified while stopped, cameras to detect aberrant movement inside the cab, etc.

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Re:Truckers Working Alongside Coders Trying to Make Driverle... by kcanini on Thursday June 22, 2017 @07:15PM (#14616013)

Let the arms race begin!

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Re:Truckers Working Alongside Coders Trying to Make Driverle... by dx034 on Friday June 23, 2017 @05:05AM (#14617862)

And what would currently happen? Killing the road worker? No, every truck would stop and you could operate in the driver's blind spot. Autonomous vehicles won't have blind spots so that the operator can identify the theft much faster.

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Re:Truckers Working Alongside Coders Trying to Make Driverle... by cakedoggie on Thursday June 22, 2017 @07:36PM (#14616105)

I think you have been watching too much ocean's eleven. This would be trivial to fix with a sensor on the bottom.

> Ok, but what if the refugees were lowered by a helicop...

Sensor on the roof. Sensor on the side. Sensor everywhere.

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