Saturday, April 11, 2015

[rjmfajpu] DoSing driverless cars

A self-driving car will, when in doubt, err on the side of safety: not moving.  Those mechanisms can therefore likely be fooled by an adversary to make the car forever not move: denial of service.  Perhaps a radio to fool the car's radar.

A human driver would eventually realize he or she is gettin' punked and ignore the distraction. But driverless cars are not expected to have a human passenger be able to override it, because the human might not even know how to drive.  Perhaps a remote operator for unusual situations, though the communication channel could be jammed by the adversary.

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