Eugine_Nier comments on Notes on Autonomous Cars - Less Wrong

21 Post author: gwern 24 January 2013 03:09AM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 25 January 2013 02:28:22AM 7 points [-]

One thing that hasn't been been mentioned is what kind of security the car's operating system has. Image what will happen after the first major autonomous car-virus, especially if the virus is malicious rather than merely incidentally introducing bugs. Keep in mind it's not to hard for a virus to be very malicious since autonomous cars need to know what pedestrians are in order to avoid hitting them.

Comment author: jsalvatier 25 January 2013 05:09:01PM 3 points [-]

Have there been major cell phone viruses? I haven't heard of many, but maybe I'm just out of the loop.