> 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.