[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.