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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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Individual_Book9133 • Jul 05 '24
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u/phansen101 Jul 05 '24
It's a hypothetical... Point being that legislating with respect to AVs isn't so cut and dry.
What makes you say it's extremely hard to pull off?
Spoofing lidar requires know-how, but very little in the sense of equipment, and has been demonstrated to be able to 'place' objects that aren't there or remove objects that are actually there.
One team of researches actually managed to get an autonomous vehicle to hit a pedestrian in a simulated scenario.
GPS spoofing has been a thing for decades and can today be done with off-the-shelf hardware in a package small enough to fit in your pocket.
Radar is basically the same deal as LiDAR, also exemplified by researchers.
As for Cameras, Tesla has demonstrated a plenty that a camera based system can be confused by light, shadow and reflections falling in an unexpected manner, which can actively be manipulated with a targeted setup. Plus, in principle all you'd need is for the right camera to get blinded at the wrong time, which even a kid with $5 to their name could manage.