[Rats] automobile attestation ... was: driverless cars can't tell the difference between projections and real objects

So, legitimate road signs will need to be attested.

That doesn't solve the problem with projected images, as humans shouldn't
need to attest their existence.

Rich Kulawiec via Dumpsterfire <dumpsterfire@firemountain.net> wrote:
    > (h/t to Dave Farber and Geoff Goodfellow)

    > Begin forwarded message:

    >> From: the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <geoff@iconia.com> Date:
    >> February 20, 2020 1:48:36 JST Subject: IS: Driverless cars can't tell
    >> the difference between projections and real objects
    >>
    >> This could be a concerning development for those who are working on
    >> autonomous vehicles.
    >>
    >> EXCERPT:
    >>
    >> One of the major concerns surrounding the development of driverless
    >> cars is that people might be able to hack into them remotely and take
    >> control. Tech journalists have been investigating ways this could be
    >> done for years, and car manufacturers are working hard to make sure
    >> their vehicles won't let this happen. It turns out you might not need
    >> to go very high tech to stop a driverless car, though, as researchers
    >> in Israel recently managed to stop one by simply projecting "phantoms"
    >> onto the road.
    >>
    >> Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's (BGU) Cyber
    >> Security Research Center in Israel found that both semi-autonomous and
    >> fully autonomous cars stopped when they detected what they thought
    >> were humans in the street but were actually projections. They also
    >> projected a street sign onto a tree and fake lane markers onto the
    >> street to trick the cars. The research was published by the
    >> International Association for Cryptologic Research.
    >>
    >> Ben Nassi, lead author and a Ph.D. student, said in a statement that
    >> these types of issues are being overlooked by the companies that are
    >> developing these types of vehicles.
    >>
    >> "This type of attack is currently not being taken into consideration
    >> by the automobile industry. These are not bugs or poor coding errors
    >> but fundamental flaws in object detectors that are not trained to
    >> distinguish between real and fake objects and use feature matching to
    >> detect visual objects," Nassi said...  [...]
    >>
    >> Spooky video shows self-driving cars being tricked by holograms
    >> https://www.inverse.com/innovation/researchers-used-phantom-images-to-trick-driverless-cars-into-stopping
    >>

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[Rats] automobile attestation ... was: driverless cars can't tell the difference between projections and real objects

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