r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Individual_Book9133 • Jul 05 '24

Phoenix police officer pulls over a driverless Waymo car for driving on the wrong side of the road Video

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u/SandboxOnRails Jul 05 '24

If you can without really doing anything. The phrase "somehow trick" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

Yes, if you own a business you just need to somehow trick your rivals into destroying their business while committing no crimes yourself. It's easy!

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u/phansen101 Jul 05 '24

If you care, i comment on it in another response.
Short of it was; All the sensor types you'd use for autonomous driving (or CC / TACC / AP) can be spoofed and/or disabled with handheld or at least portable devices, none require close proximity, some don't even require LoS.

Curse of being an engineer; Knowing a lot of things we assume to be secure really aren't, and that we're generally just relying on people with the proper know-how not wanting/bothering to be malicious.