Yahoo News Hackers ‘trick self-driving Tesla’ into driving into wrong lane using stickers
It’s possible to trick self-driving Tesla cars into going into the wrong lane simply by placing stickers in the road, Chinese hackers have shown.
China’s Keen Labs exploited a weakness in how the car ‘sees’ the road, realising that tiny, inconspicuous squares stuck on the surface would make the car ‘see’ a lane where none existed.
Leaving the tiny stickers on a crossing, the hackers were able to fool the car into driving into the wrong lane – potentially causing a collision if it happened in the real world.
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The researchers also showed that it was possible to confuse the cars by ‘blurring’ road lines with markers – but this attack is more noticeable.
The researchers wrote, ‘Our experiments proved that this architecture has security risks and reverse-lane recognition is one of the necessary functions for autonomous driving in non-closed roads.
‘“In the scene we build, if the vehicle knows that the fake lane is pointing to the reverse lane, it should ignore this fake lane and then it could avoid a traffic accident.’
