[Rhinobird]

all fun and games until some jack-ass spoofs the GPS and moves a road 20 feet to the left.

https://www.wired.com/2012/07/drone-hijacking/

[notatoad]

People in this thread are way too hung up on the "what if cars get attacked" problem. Just because you can't solve every problem, doesn't mean you can't have a usable product.

Cars today don't have any defense against people dropping bricks or pouring paint off an overpass, but somehow the system still works.

[camjohnson26]

They do actually, the humans driving the car can respond to a threat that an autonomous car would have to be programmed to avoid

[mavhc]

That's the point though, the Waymo car doesn't rely on gps, it's has HD maps on board. Plus is has dead reckoning because it's touching the ground, so it knows where it's moving.

[tripa]

Not sure I get your point.

Having atom-resolution maps doesn't help a bit it you don't know where on it you are.