Split-Second ‘Phantom’ Images Can Fool Tesla’s Autopilot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Researchers at Israel’s Ben Gurion University of the Negev have spent the last two years experimenting with “phantom” images to trick semi-autonomous driving systems. They previously revealed that they could use split-second light projections on roads to successfully trick Tesla’s driver-assistance systems into automatically stopping without warning when its camera sees spoofed images…

Intel Buys Moovit Transit App For $900 Million To Help Develop Robotaxis

Chipmaker Intel has bought Israeli public transit app maker Moovit for about $900 million to help it develop self-driving “robotaxis” that could take to the streets in early 2022, the company said. From a report: Moovit will remain independent while its technology and the data it collects from more than 800 million users in 102 countries will be integrated into Intel’s…

Researchers Trick Tesla Into Accelerating 50 Miles Per Hour

mrwireless writes: Security researchers were able to get multiple Tesla cars to accelerate to 85 miles per hour on a road with a speed limit of 35. They did this by simply modifying the speed limit sign with some black tape, turning a “3” into an “8.” Mobileye, the company that produces the Mobileye Eye Q3 for many of Tesla’s cars,…