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by sircastor 764 days ago
It should be. We've seen real, in-the-wild attacks on self-driving systems: People putting cones on hoods.

There are people out there who don't want autonomous vehicles on the streets. Whatever their reasoning is isn't particularly relevant, because if someone wants to accomplish a given end, this has potential as an attack vector.

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Trapping a car is very different from blocking important information while it's at speed.

A cone is not an example of a dangerous attack.

Failing defensively seems... good?

It's not like cones cause the cars to jam the accelerator.