[devy]

Another attack surface for self-driving cars

[adrianN]

Human drivers also pull over when people who look like the police ask them to.

[bryanlarsen]

Sure, if you're willing to risk going to jail for impersonating a law enforcement officer.

[dsnuh]

Fair enough. I'm sure some would be willing to do that, but likely not many. I do think it is going to be very interesting to work out some of the scenarios if we do get to Johnny Cab style self driving cars.

[bryanlarsen]

If you're willing to risk jail, disrupting traffic is ridiculously easy, self-driving cars or not.

[schwap]

Is fooling a computer system into thinking you are a police officer the same thing as fooling a person?

[polski-g]

People are. See South Africa, Brazil, etc.

[dsnuh]

That was my line of thinking.