"A single piece of electrical tape stuck to a 35mph (56kph) road sign is enough to trick the autopilot software in Tesla's vehicles into speeding up to 85mph (136kph).

The vulnerability was reported by McAfee Labs, the security research arm of McAfee, on Wednesday. Steve Povolny, head of McAfee Advanced Threat Research, and Shivangee Trivedi, a data scientist working on the same team, discovered the attack when they probed the camera system aboard Tesla's Model X and Model S vehicles, both built in 2016."

 

 

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/20/tesla_ai_tricked_85_mph/

Edited 21 February, 20206 yr by StickyMicky
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Hardly news, I thought everybody knew and understood the following extract, did they not teach you anything at school? 😀

 

 

Since the researchers have full access to how the image classifier works, the process is described as a "white-box" attack. Next, they fine-tuned and transferred the attack on to Tesla's cameras without having detailed knowledge on how its image recognition algorithm works, known as a "black-box" attack.

"What this means, in its most simple form, is attacks leveraging model hacking which are trained and executed against white box, also known as open source systems, will successfully transfer to black box, or fully closed and proprietary systems, so long as the features and properties of the attack are similar enough," they said.

This also only works on older Teslas using a very particular camera and user action is needed to start the acceleration. So it's interesting academically but not really a serious real world vulnerability.

Edited 21 February, 20206 yr by Aspman

In NE Derbyshire and South Yorkshire I've recently seen a number of speed limit signs transformed to 3Q and 5Q.

I was wondering why. A dislike of Tesla owners?