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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, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 18 2017, @02:38PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 18 2017, @02:38PM (#598668)

    Used a bag of salt (or other white powder) to make a temporary white circle in a roadside turnout. It's a double line, the outer is dashed, the inner is solid. Like the double centerline on a 2-lane road where you can pass, but cars coming the other way can't. Once the "autonomous car" gets inside the circle, it sees the solid line on its side, can't get out.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 19 2017, @05:49AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 19 2017, @05:49AM (#598850)

    Son, you need to think bigger.

    A roundabout would be a perfect trap, now that would be fun to watch, round, and round, and round, until the car battery dies.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @01:16AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @01:16AM (#599088)

      > Son....

      What makes you think I'm a guy?

      (On the internet no one knows you are a dog...)