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Re:Firefighters forced to smash window of driverless Cruise ... by lazyasciiart on Monday January 30, 2023 @06:56PM (#34588555)
My brother and his teenage friends redirected traffic into their school grounds to prove that they could do it. They also passed all 'sure, looks legit' tests.
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Re:Firefighters forced to smash window of driverless Cruise ... by kube-system on Monday January 30, 2023 @07:26PM (#34588957)
Humans aren’t perfect, but their BS detectors are better than nothing.

The more important test scenarios are life threatening or unreasonably disruptive situations rather than harmless pranks.

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Re:Firefighters forced to smash window of driverless Cruise ... by williamcotton on Monday January 30, 2023 @08:28PM (#34589587)
PKE transmitters given to firefighters with some mechanism to cycle private keys on autodriving taxis weekly.

Nowhere near perfect, but that makes it a lot harder than just getting a spike strip or a hand gun or a demolition derby car. We’re talking about people willing to risk a decade in prison to “do criminal things to a car and/or passengers”. How much work do you think they want to put into disabling a car with a remote? Why not just wave a gun in the driver’s face at a stop light?

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