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Futurity: “Roadside Objects Can Trick Driverless Cars” (Alfred Chen quoted)

May 31, 2022

“A box, bicycle, or traffic cone may be all that is necessary to scare a driverless vehicle into coming to a dangerous stop in the middle of the street or on a freeway off-ramp, creating a hazard for other motorists and pedestrians,” says Qi Alfred Chen, professor of computer science at the University of California, Irvine, and coauthor of a new paper on the findings.

Chen recently presented the paper at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium in San Diego.

Read the full story on Futurity.

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