WIRED: Emergency Vehicle Lights Can Screw Up a Car's Automated Driving System
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WIRED: Emergency Vehicle Lights Can Screw Up a Car's Automated Driving System
A joint research paper demonstrates that when some camera-based automated driving systems are exposed to the flashing lights of emergency vehicles, they can no longer confidently identify objects on the road. The researchers call the phenomenon a "digital epileptic seizure" (epilepticar for short) where the systems, trained by artificial intelligence to distinguish between images of different road objects, fluctuate in effectiveness in time with the emergency lights' flashes. The flaw could potentially cause vehicles with automated driving systems enabled to "crash near emergency vehicles" and "be exploited by adversaries to cause such accidents."#vulnerability #AutomatedDriving #AutonomousVehicles #infosec #cybersecurity
