A $225 GPS spoofer can send sat-nav-guided vehicles into oncoming traffic

Re:A $225 GPS spoofer can send sat-nav-guided vehicles into ... by Robotbeat on Thursday July 19, 2018 @08:56AM (#17565748)

Except rail lines aren’t protected, and couldn’t feasibly be protected. An autonomous car could easily be protected from this simply by using local sensors for collision avoidance, which I think is the norm, as opposed to what this headline misleadingly (heh) suggests.

Edit: Relevant XKCD. Causing crashes isn’t hard period. https://m.xkcd.com/1958/

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Re:A $225 GPS spoofer can send sat-nav-guided vehicles into ... by randomsearch on Saturday July 21, 2018 @04:46AM (#17581300)

In the UK railways are mostly protected. Now, that may be a simple fence, which someone could climb over, but then they may find themselves reported, or caught on CCTV. It's a very obvious, very visible thing to do, and in urban areas railways are indeed protected pretty well. And remote triggering something like that is non-trivial.

Roads are everywhere, most of them completely unprotected, and you don't actually have to physically and visibly interfere with the road.

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Re:A $225 GPS spoofer can send sat-nav-guided vehicles into ... by DanBC on Saturday July 21, 2018 @04:53AM (#17581320)

> In the UK railways are mostly protected.

They aren't protected. We know this from the numbers of deaths that occur each year on the railways.

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