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Couldn't you just shoot human drivers from a distance with a sniper rifle? I don't see why everyone is scared of new technologies being exploitable. Our civiliz
by Houshalter 11y ago
Couldn't you just shoot human drivers from a distance with a sniper rifle? I don't see why everyone is scared of new technologies being exploitable. Our civilization is built in the basis that most people are not assholes most of the time.
- spdionis 11y agoSniper rifles are not easy to get and use.
- stormcrowsx 11y agoI'd imagine if this became a critical piece of our infrastructure the FCC or some other government organization would step in and make products that interfered with them very difficult to obtain. Not to mention I could have a rifle by the end of the day in my state.
- Houshalter 11y agoAre they? A decent rifle is not difficult to obtain or use. There are many places you can practice. You don't need to be that accurate to be extremely dangerous and pull off an attack like that. Meanwhile lidar spoofing attacks are likely going to be far harder. You need to obtain expensive (and probably illegal) equipment, and have the technical knowledge to use it. I don't know what the range of such an attack would be, but I don't think it would be better than a rifle.
- panarky 11y agoLaser pointers are easy to get and point at helicopters and airplanes. The FBI successfully arrests and prosecutes those who do. Why would this be any different? https://www.fbi.gov/newyork/press-releases/2014/westchester-man-charged-with-aiming-high-powered-laser-pointer-at-police-helicopter-deferred-prosecution-agreement-reached https://www.fbi.gov/newyork/press-releases/2014/westchester-...
- superuser2 11y agoGetting shot with a sniper rifle is very clearly identifiable as a high-end murder. Investigators arrive at car crash sites far more ready to consider them accidental.
- Houshalter 11y agoSelf driving cars would likely have black boxes that record everything that happened.