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Ask HN: Worst outcomes with self-driving being hacked?

• samstave 3y ago
  Or some script kiddy gets access to self driving modules and drives them into things/people... so - cyber security should be all over this? I havent seen this at all in media, I take that as a bad sign.
• hitpointdrew 3y ago
  > An executive/politician gets into a car and it gets hacked to either kidnap or kill them...\ Rules for thee, not for me. Executive/politician security teams aren’t going to be buying self driving cars for their clients.
  • samstave 3y ago
    Autonomous vehicles jacked to create a swarm aroumd an executive convoy to entrap them in an ambush... I think auto cars are going to be a really really profitable channel to netsec... - Around 15 years ago I got a car in manhattan (im from SF) - and I was driving through midtown and a taxi pissed me off, and I cut him off... in retaliation, however, and this was amazing ; A F-ton of taxis immediately swarmed around me and boxed me in to having to drive super slow... But the immediacy of their reactions to me and that ONE taxi traffic-fighting was astonishing..
• themerone 3y ago
  Worst outcome is that such an event leads to regulations stunting the development and use of autonomous vehicles. Autonomous vehicles will eventually save tens of thousands of lives a year, but public perception will be based solely on the lives they kill.
• h2odragon 3y ago
  car theft might become incredibly easy. neighbor pranks: "someone takes my car and makes it do uber at night. its there in the morning but its like a public toilet" flash mobs of hijacked cars jamming downtown areas to impede emergency response to $bad_behavior parades might need heavier blockades
• freedude 3y ago
  Well, depending on the situation it could start World War 3. But what is the point of borrowing trouble?