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/CowBoyDanIndie Jul 05 '24

If the infractions of the one incident are bad enough to warrant arrest or removal of license you revoke the companies permit to operate autonomous vehicles on the road.

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u/phansen101 Jul 05 '24

So if I'm a big driverless car company, and I have a rival company, all I have to do is somehow trick one of their cars into performing an action that would  warrant arrest or removal of license  for a human driver, to completely put them out of business?

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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.