LIDARs can be blinded by consumer grade laser pointers, I wonder if there are systems that protect LIDARs against adversarial attacks or DOS attacks
Drivers can also be blinded by consumer grade laser pointers.
If someone starts attacking safety systems physically I would expect they will get quite a bit of jail time.
Messing with machines have a way lower ethical threshold for most people.
Like fooling vending machines to give you soda. Nothing 'my teenage friend' lost sleep over.
> Messing with machines have a way lower ethical threshold for most people
We’re in the regime of throwing rocks at a freeway from a bridge to cutting brake lines as a prank. The attack surface here isn’t new and isn’t difficult to think through. Someone who can’t is going to be equally dangerous, machine or man.
I don't think e.g. 'kids' will see it like cutting a brake line.
I agree, as a former ECU programmer, though. I am terrified of drive by wire.
More like making the Google computer do silly things.
More comparable would be the prank of tying some soda tin cans in a string to the exhaust etc, in how I believe my scapegoat kids would see it.
There are also (stupid) people who like to point laser pointers to helicopter pilots...
They can be blinded by the sun too.
I worked as a reaserch engineer at a uni playing with a 16 beam Velodyne when those were fancy.
Put it on a car for a demo day, drawing the dots in 3d and marking obstacles red, and during sun set there was artifacts with no obvious way to filter out.
Strangely, I was never able to recreate this. I think was some specific athmospheric condition.