Posted on 11/01/2022 7:05:11 AM PDT by devane617
Self-driving cars, like the human drivers that preceded them, need to see what's around them to avoid obstacles and drive safely.
The most sophisticated autonomous vehicles typically use lidar, a spinning radar-type device that acts as the eyes of the car. Lidar provides constant information about the distance to objects so the car can decide what actions are safe to take.
But these eyes, it turns out, can be tricked.
New research reveals that expertly timed lasers shined at an approaching lidar system can create a blind spot in front of the vehicle large enough to completely hide moving pedestrians and other obstacles. The deleted data causes the cars to think the road is safe to continue moving along, endangering whatever may be in the attack's blind spot.
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^yup that’s what those disrupters will do next.
Maybe we can blind the robot dogs they are going to send after us this way.
Once again society will be screwed by the small percentage of a-holes who ruin it for everyone. As it will always be.
Turns out lasers can also disrupt human vision.
DING DING DING
Amazing how some folks get to advanced ages and just can’t see that.
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The same thing happens when you put a laser into a human’s eye.
“Once again society will be screwed by the small percentage of a-holes who ruin it for everyone. As it will always be.”
Unfortunately, there are many of this small percentage in government.
People should be grateful for the miscreants fooling around with the system while it's still in development.
This is 100% on the design engineers that built a system that can't distinguish between a laser return from their own transponder and one that's added in from another source.
It's not like we haven't known about ghosting radar returns for more than half a century.
A human would just stop.
Make trains run autonomously first. Study them for ten years, then we’ll see.
Old LASER safety sign:
CAUTION: LASER IN USE
Do not stare into LASER again with remaining good eye
A fair point. Loosely related to what we used to call “idiot proofing” when l coded.
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