[dogma1138]

Those patterns and various frequency shifts are often used to prevent secondary reflections and to be able to operate in a saturated environment.

A powerful commercial laser can easily damage the CCD but again it’s not an issue drivers can be blinded by lasers already and are constantly blinded by other things like high beams and highway camera flashes the closest I came to being night blinded twice is when a red light camera was triggered on an intersection in both cases I got honked for not seeing the light turn green because I couldn’t see shit for like 5 seconds.

Not every system needs to be resilient to adversaries we don’t drive in armored cars or have active protection systems against ATGMs put on our SUVs.

If an asshole wants to jam cars they’ll be able to they’ll get caught and go to jail that’s more than enough for these systems to be reliable.

If you think about it we already have systems which we rely on everyday that can be jammed with $50 worth of gear like cell phones and GPS these aren’t adversary resistant but we don’t cry about it because it’s not an issue.

[tjoff]

It's not an issue because loosing GPS or cell phone coverage is in the vast majority of cases just an inconvenience. Also, no critical system relies on it blindly (part from emergency calls).

A high speed collision is not comparable.

A human has tons of options being blinded by a laser. Obscuring it for one.

Also the ease of which an attack can be performed is of immense importance. It is quite the barrier to pick up a rifle and start to shoot at vehicles. A handheld laser is something people do just for shits and giggles.

This is something that helicopter pilots are quite aware of.

[dogma1138]

>A human has tons of options being blinded by a laser. Obscuring it for one.

Really? get a 500mw laser into your eyes at highway speeds and I can guarantee you it's a crash, the pain and the shock from being blinded you aren't going to react rationally you going to twitch uncontrollably.

GPS and Cellphones are constantly used for life critical services and can be jammed easily but no one is doing that.

>This is something that helicopter pilots are quite aware of.

Helicopter pilots being blinded by lasers isn't the same thing as drivers at those altitudes the laser beam has spread sufficiently to while remain dangerous at least not being painful.

Helicopters also often come with some sort of auto hover mode these days and you can maintain attitude without sight landing would be hard but you aren't at risk of crashing into anything immediately.

[tjoff]

> Really?

Yes.

> GPS and Cellphones are constantly used for life critical services and can be jammed easily but no one is doing that.

They are being jammed. Not as often as idiots playing with lasers though. But for silly things like "my employer put a tracking device on my truck, if I jam signals I can do whatever I want".

> Helicopter pilots being blinded by lasers isn't the same thing as drivers at those altitudes the laser beam has spread sufficiently to while remain dangerous at least not being painful.

Can apparently break havoc on sensors though. And this happens over densely populated areas.

> Helicopters also often come with some sort of auto hover mode these days and you can maintain attitude without sight landing would be hard but you aren't at risk of crashing into anything immediately.

Good luck doing that downtown.

[a_t48]

I'd guess that if the car's LIDAR is suddenly blinded, the worse that would happen is that the car would slow down and stop. There would probably be recorded data on the incident that might even help find the one who did it.