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posted by martyb on Friday November 17 2017, @10:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the engineers-need-artists-to-keep-them-honest dept.

A very clever (imo) artist has developed a simple trap for autonomous cars --
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thuN2HD6m2s
Less than 90 seconds of video, no sound. If you get it right away it's only a minute.

Oh, and if you didn't get the title, there is this,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heffalump


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  • (Score: 4, Disagree) by MostCynical on Saturday November 18 2017, @01:13AM (4 children)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Saturday November 18 2017, @01:13AM (#598482) Journal

    this worked with one car.

    Was the car hacked?

    Did they take many attempts to find the right approach angle?

    Does it work with any other cars (different car of same model, different maker..)

    Does it work twice with the same car?

     

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 18 2017, @02:33AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 18 2017, @02:33AM (#598512)

    Is it even an autonomous car. We're told that it's an autonomous car, but it looks like a regular car that's been driven into the middle of a circle. I see no particular reason for an autonomous car to have pulled over there and then driven straight for the specific set of lines that make no logical sense in a traffic context.

  • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Saturday November 18 2017, @03:49AM (2 children)

    by captain normal (2205) on Saturday November 18 2017, @03:49AM (#598557)
    --
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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 18 2017, @03:55AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 18 2017, @03:55AM (#598562)

      Has anyone converted this list of rules into a decision tree or other machine-usable form?
      Seems like this must have been done by all the auto-drive car developers.

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by captain normal on Saturday November 18 2017, @03:58AM

      by captain normal (2205) on Saturday November 18 2017, @03:58AM (#598564)

      3---2---1----do you get it yet? All North and Central America and the countries I've driven in in South East Asia You may cross a dashed line in your lane, but cannot cross a solid line oin your lane.

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