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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by amelius on Monday March 19, 2018 @03:37PM (#16622290)
That could happen during a massive, remotely-triggered software update.
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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by falcolas on Monday March 19, 2018 @04:16PM (#16622672)
Just imagine a batch of cars with malfunctioning inertial sensors (it's brought down more than a few of my drones). GPS and perception (through ML or LIDAR) will work most of the time to override such errors, but if there was a second malfunction... "The car is swerving left at 1m/s; correct right."
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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by wiz21c on Monday March 19, 2018 @03:42PM (#16622344)
Like the one that happened some days ago with Occulus helmets.
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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by PeterisP on Monday March 19, 2018 @06:29PM (#16623886)
That could happen because of a malicious 'time-bomb' placed by a hostile state actor in such an update.
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