Re:We Tested Comma AI's OpenPilot
by CapricornNoble on Friday October 16, 2020 @07:07AM
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The article reads that OpenPilot uses facial recognition to detect a distracted driver.....Can that be fooled with an image, or perhaps a mannequin? I wonder if you could apply this autonomous car tech to vehicle-borne IEDs. The driver could dismount a few hundred meters short of the target and provide eyes-on ground-level surveillance (if for some reason you aren't using a UAV for the same) while the vehicle drives on a final attack vector.
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It's an open system. You don't have to fool it in that case. Just disable the distraction detection.
Re:We Tested Comma AI's OpenPilot
by throwaway744678 on Friday October 16, 2020 @07:12AM
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They probably also check for movements, blinks, etc.
In any case, it should be viewed as an help for the driver (beep when falling asleep), rather than something working against him. If you wan to actively fool the device, do as you please (the software is open-source, after all, you can probably fork it to disable that feature) but face the consequences: your life is on the line!