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A lot of words here, but the video shows nothing besides the spoofed GPS location in the onboard screen. In particular, this is missing any kind of detail: > A

A lot of words here, but the video shows nothing besides the spoofed GPS location in the onboard screen. In particular, this is missing any kind of detail: > Although the car was three miles away from the planned exit when the spoofing attack began, the car reacted as if the exit was just 500 feet away—abruptly slowing down, activating the right turn signal, and making a sharp turn off the main road. The driver was not prepared for this turn and by the time he regained manual control, it was too late to attempt to maneuver back to the highway. So they forced the car to take the wrong exit? They stated just before that physical navigation/driving has no dependency on GPS. That’s a lot less dangerous than implied for “veering off road”, but the description is too fuzzy to know what really happened, and gives the article a suspicious tone.

fastball 7y ago
Almost like the authors of the article have a conflict of interest as they are actively trying to sell a product to "mitigate" these attacks. In practice, I'm fairly certain that such an attack being highly illegal (which it already is) would be more than enough deterrent in 99.99% of cases, just as it is with people throwing rocks onto cars from bridges or shining lasers into driver's eyes.
- jacquesm 7y ago
  > just as it is with people throwing rocks onto cars from bridges or shining lasers into driver's eyes. Both of which happen with alarming regularity.
  - fastball 7y ago
    I wouldn't qualify the frequency of either of those things as statistically "alarming". In relation to how many people drive, those occurrences are exceedingly rare.
    - jacquesm 7y ago
      Not rare enough that I've had both happen to me.
      - fastball 7y ago
        That sucks. Anecdata is a funny thing. I've driven hundreds of thousands of miles all over the country and never experienced either.
        jacquesm 7y ago
        > I've driven hundreds of thousands of miles all over the country and never experienced either. Anecdata is a funny thing :) https://www.google.com/search?q=stenengooiers+viaduct https://www.google.com/search?q=stenengooiers+viaduct NL is super small, quite dense and the media here tend to report these things widely so you get a lot of copycat stupidity on top of the first idiot. People have died here because of this.

fastball 7y ago

Almost like the authors of the article have a conflict of interest as they are actively trying to sell a product to "mitigate" these attacks. In practice, I'm fairly certain that such an attack being highly illegal (which it already is) would be more than enough deterrent in 99.99% of cases, just as it is with people throwing rocks onto cars from bridges or shining lasers into driver's eyes.

jacquesm 7y ago
> just as it is with people throwing rocks onto cars from bridges or shining lasers into driver's eyes. Both of which happen with alarming regularity.
- fastball 7y ago
  I wouldn't qualify the frequency of either of those things as statistically "alarming". In relation to how many people drive, those occurrences are exceedingly rare.
  - jacquesm 7y ago
    Not rare enough that I've had both happen to me.
    - fastball 7y ago
      That sucks. Anecdata is a funny thing. I've driven hundreds of thousands of miles all over the country and never experienced either.
      - jacquesm 7y ago
        > I've driven hundreds of thousands of miles all over the country and never experienced either. Anecdata is a funny thing :) https://www.google.com/search?q=stenengooiers+viaduct https://www.google.com/search?q=stenengooiers+viaduct NL is super small, quite dense and the media here tend to report these things widely so you get a lot of copycat stupidity on top of the first idiot. People have died here because of this.