Researchers fool an old Tesla into misreading a speed limit sign; that fools the public into panic
Submitted by brad on Mon, 2020-02-24 10:20Many of the media were keen to pick up on a report from McAfee researchers about how they were able to simply modify a speed limit sign to cause the MobilEye in old Teslas to misread it and speed up. We get spooked when AI software acts like an idiot. But in reality, this isn't the sort of attack that is likely to be done in the wild, and it's also unlikely to cause any danger.