The fusion of Lidar, radar, and cameras can be fooled by stuff from your kids’ craft box A team of researchers from prominent universities – including SUNY Buffalo, Iowa State, UNC Charlotte, and Purdue – were able to turn an autonomous vehicle (AV) operated on the open sourced Apollo driving platform from Chinese web giant Baidu into a deadly weapon by tricking its multi-sensor fusion system.…
It’s actually a small metal object you can place in front of the car to make it think something big and dangerous is there. The article suggests attacking such an object to a drone for maximum chaos.
Actually the opposite, it makes them unable to see the big and dangerous object ahead of them.
I would liken it to flashing lasers at drivers’ eyes. Obviously illegal, dangerous, but reasonably uncommon in the real world and something the authorities should be able to reasonably prevent.