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Report: Hackers Fool Tesla Autopilot into Driving Towards Oncoming Traffic
by Lucas Nolan

Hackers have reportedly begun using stickers which confuse Tesla’s autopilot system to trick the cars into driving into the wrong lanes or towards oncoming traffic.

Forbes reports that Keen Labs, a Chinese cybersecurity research group which is regarded as one of the best in the world, has successfully developed two different methods of confusing Tesla autopilot’s lane-recognition tech. The first method the researchers tried was to alter the lane markings on the road, adding patches to the ground to make them seem blurred. This worked but the patches on the road were particularly conspicuous and easily seen by drivers, as a result, Keen Labs determined this would be too hard to implement in the real world.

Keen Labs then attempted to create a “fake lane” ...

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/04/01/report-hackers-fool-tesla-autopilot-into-driving-towards-oncoming-traffic/

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