The tests on the autonomous driving they are proceeding at full speed, but there are still many problems to be solved. The latest emerged from a study conducted in China, specifically by some researchers from Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, and concerns a sort of “color blindness”By some self-driving cars, which exchanged the red light with the green one, consequently reacting incorrectly to the real conditions of the road and traffic. This happened because the researchers tried to point a laser at the cameras used in the cars, which were unable to identify the correct color of the traffic light that was on at the time.
As pointed out by Repubblica, in the course of its research, the team of Chinese scholars aimed a laser at the sensors of five camera models mounted on self-driving cars, using two simple open source software packages for the interpretation of the images acquired by the camera on duty. The case of “color blindness” concerned 30% of the cars testedconducted to analyze the problem of possible attacks on self-driving car systems: if this inconvenience were to occur even when this type of driverless car is officially put into circulation, we would be faced with a major problem for the safety of all road users, as the cars in question could shoot even though the light is still red.
“Autonomous vehicles will have to be comply with strict guidelines like airlines. If that didn’t happen, there would be serious problems – commented Richard Smith, of the UK’s De Montfort University – That’s why studies like this are so important, because they help highlight potential problems that automakers need to think about right now. Given the results of this study, a determined attacker with sufficient resources will always be able to do damage“.
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