Strazdas said:
Lil devils x said:
GPS hacking:
https://www.rt.com/usa/iran-drone-hack-stealth-943/
http://www.ibtimes.com/gps-terrorism-hackers-could-exploit-location-technology-hijack-ships-airplanes-1362937
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/07/24/hackers-reveal-nasty-new-car-attacks-with-me-behind-the-wheel-video/
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/07/31/this_security_flaw_allows_hackers_to_intercept_spoof_or_jam_gps_tracking.html
https://www.hackread.com/hacking-smartphones-gps-in-car-navigation-system/
I ALSO strongly disagree that computers are yet capable of thinking " better than humans" when it comes to extreme situations because they are only equipped to handle situations for which they are programmed for, if they are not programmed to deal with the current situation they are dealing with, they do not have a way to properly respond, unlike humans who ARE capable of making a judgement call as to let the tree hit the hood of the car to avoid the pole being hurled at them in a weather event. Computers do what they are programmed to do and only if they are functioning properly. Humans change and adapt to survive as they have for millions of years even often when they are not " functioning properly". Speaking of tornadoes... this was taken over the weekend here..
In addition:
Yes, the cars have had issues of going too slow:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34808105
They have even been making jokes about this..
http://www.informationweek.com/it-life/google-self-driving-cars-10-reasons-they-go-so-slowly/a/d-id/1323151
Here you can get a ticket for going 10mph under the speed limit.
ALSO, if the cattle is in the road, you do not sit there all day and wait for someone to move them.. they could be there all day. If an officer has not arrived to assist you in directing you to drive slowly around them, it is safe to slowly navigate off road around the cattle s well without causing harm to you or your vehicle. This happens so frequently around here that it would be a daily issue if self driving cars were allowed on the road here. We often have officers and road workers manually directing traffic with hands here from everything from pot hole repairs, to furniture and ladders falling off trucks to escaped cattle.
1st link: Russian today, really? anyway, i remmeber that incident. the drones communicated their orders via unencrypted wireless signal, Iranians mimicked this signal and told the drone different instructions. no GPS signal involved.
2nd: "Humphreys? team built the world?s most powerful GPS spoofer, which dupes GPS antennas with fake signals. "
and yet nothing happened. but yeah, this is actual spoofing that may affect these cars if GPS was the only thing they relied on.
3rd: nothing even relevant. he connected directly, with wires, to the cars computer and for some illegal reason the cars breaks were fully controlled by the computer (which as i mentioned is illegal to do. the break pedal is required by car regulation to be able to directly connect to the break blocks, so even if you lost all power, you could still break (though with power-breaks you will have to jam the breaks around 5-7 times harder to have any effect. before power breaks were invented some people were barred from driving simply because they didnt have enough strenght to power the break pedals)
4th: no GPS hacking either, but this is at least related to your concerns. but like i said, people that have knowledge to do this arent interested in your car, they are interested in that 4 million gold truck.
5th: ignoring the clickbait opening that looks like some tabloit like "The Sun" more than anything worth reading. While the article provides no details assuming they arent just blowing things out of proportions this may actually be a good argument in your favor.
No, driving on the road is not survival of the species challenge and the human adaptability there is required far less than ability to react quickly and safely, something we know for a fact driver humans are incapable of. so by the sole fact that google cars can sometimes do this they are already better than humans that NEVER can.
If you got weekly tornados that throw trees at your car the only thing i can come up with for why people live there is a suicidal death wish.
Notice how the first link explicitly says that google cars have never had a ticket issued to them for over 1.2 million miles and shows exactly how humans failed to drive properly?
the second link is just some guy making bad jokes about google. at least it has a nice picture of a dog in it
The only way cattle is in the road is if people are moving it somewhere. any other case cattle is in the road the cattle owner probably wont be able to afford to own it very quickly. I dont know how much you know about cattle, but cattle wont just stand there whole day looking at your car. they get bored way too quickly and will go find some grass to chew. If cattle on the road is a "daily issue" where you live i once agian have to ask what the fuck is wrong with that place? and how did that cattle wasnt flown away by those weekly tornadoes yet?
Also this could once again be easily solved by the car stopping and letting you take manual control to drive around the cattle.
You realize I just grabbed the first few links when googling " GPS Hacking"? There is much more if you actually read up on it. Hobbyist have even been doing this now. Second, come drive in Texas and tell me about how driving is not a matter of adapting to survive. We have 80 mph speed limits where the actual flow of traffic exceeds 100mph and ,yes, people are better than computers currently under the same situations as they have been attempting to test the vehicles here as well. In well mapped, slow driving routes they sustain but outside of that they are not viable yet. In addition to GPS hacking what happens when the Auto dealership is hacked? For example:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/07/22/hacks-on-the-highway/
What happens if the people who are supposed to maintain the vehicles and update them gets hacked? The truth is there is no such thing as " secure" when it comes to a programmable device, since you can just change it's programming.The idea that " oh people won't hack regular cars.. they will hack a gold truck" is completely false. They hack what they know. That is why schools and education sites are actually worse than porn sites for being hacked. They hack their friends, their peers, they hack that " evil hag teacher that made their day a living hell".
http://arcticwolf.com/news/security-it-trendsnews/schools-increasingly-targeted-by-hackers/
http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2010/06/16/03hackers.h03.html
https://www.contentkeeper.com/sites/default/files/whitepapers/WHITEPAPER%20-%20Malware%20Threats%20and%20Education%20(04-13-US).pdf
http://onairpk.com/uos-cs-student-hacks-university-website-to-record-protest-against-management/
My cousin actually traps viruses and experiments on them to see what kind of damage they can inflict. Even with the security measures they have put in place to prevent computers from catching fire from viruses as they used to, there are still viruses that have been able to do some serious damage melting the motherboard and setting the printers on fire. There is no such thing as " secure" as no firewall or antivirus stops even 90%. Even the best software only stops like 75% and that is acceptable when it is not a car.
How many computer issues have you had with the car you drive right now or one you have previously owned? I have had computer issues with every single car I have owned. Not just one of them, but every single one of them. The computers error, they break down, they even sometimes go berserk turning themselves on and off randomly and doing strange things like lock and unlock the doors and set off panic mode for no apparent reason and lock your windows and you take your cars into a specialist to have it repaired and they tell you they have no idea why it is doing that either... That is the reality of technology. I build computers as a hobby, I can solder boards and replace capacitor and chips.. but I could not tell you why they do the things they do sometimes either because when you look at everything, it shows it should not be doing that, if it were that easy to determine what it is going to do when it errors, gets hacked or becomes damaged, they would have solved the problems before they sold the devices. The difference between when your computer malfunctions in your home and when it does it in your car is people can die.
We do have autonomous cars already on the road in tornado alley.
http://gizmodo.com/google-is-now-testing-its-autonomous-cars-in-austin-te-1716174014
On car hacking:
http://fortune.com/2015/09/15/intel-car-hacking/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11964140/Three-quarters-of-cars-stolen-in-France-electronically-hacked.html
http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/researcher-hacks-selfdriving-car-sensors
http://www.popsci.com/hackers-can-trick-lidar-used-in-autonomous-cars-with-laser-pointer
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/will-car-hacking-become-the-new-carjacking-2014-06-03
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/archive/2015/May/Pages/ResearchersHackIntoDriverlessCarSystemTakeControlofVehicle.aspx
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/07/hackers-trick-self-driving-cars-lidar-sensor
http://destinhaus.com/driverless-cars-the-car-hack-security-challenge/
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/01/25/killer-cars-auto-computer-systems-open-to-malfunction-hackers
http://fortune.com/2014/10/07/car-hacking-how-big-is-the-data-threat-to-self-driving-cars/
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2010645/self-driving-cars-could-bring-a-new-world-of-hacking.html
http://us.norton.com/yoursecurityresource/detail.jsp?aid=car_computer
http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-car-hacking-20150914-story.html
http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/state-trooper-vehicles-hacked-/d/d-id/1322415
http://thehackernews.com/2015/10/hacking-car-airbag.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/29/technology/uber-hires-two-engineers-who-showed-cars-could-be-hacked.html?_r=0
to name a few...
You DO realize that the google cars are driving the same well mapped, well prepared route over and over to get their "millions" of miles?
http://gizmodo.com/how-to-teach-an-autonomous-car-to-drive-1694725874
http://fusion.net/story/213265/google-robocars-accidents/
http://theoatmeal.com/blog/google_self_driving_car
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2492807,00.asp
Of course it isn't just tornadoes or cows people have to worry about being in the road..
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Elephant-seal-crossing-the-road-causes-North-Bay-6724315.php
There is all kinds of crap in the road on a daily basis in every city, state, country in the world we have to be concerned about..
The primary reason cattle are in the road here is they escaped, not because someone is moving them. Cows, lamas, alpacas, horses, bulls, pigs.. all escape, all the time here. Fences break, gates break when no one is around and they get out and run amuck, then you get a show as the sheriff and other "cowboys" get on their horses and lasso and round them up...
What do you mean what is wrong with the place if there are animals in the road? Doesn't that happen everywhere? I am not aware of a place where animals do not go into the road. It isn;t like we are the only animals living on this planet, we have been living alongside them for quite some time now. If it isn't cows, it is horses, deer, moose, elephants.. hell in California it is seals.. LOL
You are assuming the car has a steering wheel or a driver.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/technology/googles-next-phase-in-driverless-cars-no-brakes-or-steering-wheel.html