The rhetorical heyday of autonomous vehicles has seemingly come and gone. The technology is still under development, with legacy manufacturers and commercial operators continuing to invest in self-driving development programs at a tempered rate.
Even so, the proliferation of the technology is strong enough (and maybe strange enough, too) that the realm of academic research is still deeply invested. It is the future, after all, or at least that’s what we were told. But the idyllic future of self-driving cars may not be so safe and sound, either, according to researchers at the University of California Irvine.
That’s because there is an insidious, potentially hazardous vulnerability baked into the technological recipe that makes autonomous vehicles possible.
To add redundancy to its navigation and sensing systems, many autonomous vehicle developers use lidar, known in the long form as Light Detection and Ranging.
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