Re:A $225 GPS spoofer can send sat-nav-guided vehicles into ...
by dsfyu404ed on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:05AM
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I agree
Google/Apple/whatever directions send delivery vehicles down roads with under-height structures all the time and they rarely get can-opened. GPS directions are inaccurate enough in urban environments that people have to pay enough attention for this attack to not work very well. People will generally defer to the local signage when it comes to which lane you need to be in for a turn and which way you can't drive down a street or how tall a bridge actually is.
* by fooling the vehicle into driving the wrong way through a one-way street.
That's a serious asterisk. I think there are much more interesting worst-case applications for this, like kidnapping, randsom, misdirecting emergency responders etc. Some of those are mentioned by the article, but the headline just causes doubt and disappointment.