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> The boffins suggest that the attack could be carried out with drones, which serve to "hide" a secondary vehicle from the victim AV by projecting or carrying t
by Ukv 2y ago
> The boffins suggest that the attack could be carried out with drones, which serve to "hide" a secondary vehicle from the victim AV by projecting or carrying the adversarial object.
It's an interesting topic to explore, but for practicality I feel as though at the point where you're flying a drone (carrying an object specifically designed for the car's sensor system) between the autonomous vehicle and a vehicle you want to hide in hopes of causing a crash, you've already passed up countless simpler and less conspicuous opportunities to cause problems. Reminded a bit of: https://xkcd.com/1958/ https://xkcd.com/1958/
- hiatus 2y ago> Reminded a bit of: https://xkcd.com/1958/ https://xkcd.com/1958/ We live in a world where people will call an armed swat team to someone's house because they don't like their twitch stream. The easier it is to troll from afar, the more people will do it.
- Ukv 2y agoI don't think the level of involvement and conspicuousness required for this attack makes it any easier to cause crashes (even from afar) than it already was with human drivers, like by messing with the vehicle's brakes while it's parked, or using the same drone to drop a metal object through the windshield from high up.