Whoops! Hackers Successfully Fool Model S And Steer Into Oncoming Traffic

Hackers have demonstrated some worrisome ways to manipulate and confuse the various systems on a Tesla Model S. Their most dramatic feat: sending the car careening into the oncoming traffic lane by placing a series of small stickers on the road.

Attack vector: This an example of an “adversarial attack,” a way of manipulating a machine-learning model by feeding in a specially crafted input. Adversarial attacks could become more common as machine learning is used more widely, especially in areas like network security.

Blurred lines: Tesla’s Autopilot is vulnerable because it recognizes lanes using computer vision. In other words, the system relies on camera data, analyzed by a neural network, to tell the vehicle how to keep centered within its lane.

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atc98092 - 4/2/2019 11:54:39 AM

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If you read the article, you will see that Tesla has already updated their software to resolve the issue.

222max - 4/2/2019 11:14:02 AM

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So now cars have to be engineered to resist evil and ridiculous human intent. It's bad enough that so many people are poor drivers to begin with.

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 4/2/2019 2:12:23 PM

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It was also posted on April 1st.

mre30 - 4/2/2019 3:58:51 PM

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So maybe this is just a PR ploy and all those fiery Tesla crashes where we thought that autopilot steered the vehicle into the semi-tractor trailer, the white median barricade, the tree, etc. etc. arose because the Tesla was hacked?

Is it possible to blame a Tesla fire-ball incertation on a hacker? Maybe that Model X in Vermont in the middle of the frozen lake a few months ago, torched because it was hacked?

Genius PR!