A test of Tesla’s Autopilot shows that the current methodology of rushing out software patches after a failure is simply not good enough for autonomous vehicles.
Researchers at the Tencent Security Lab managed to get the Tesla Autopilot to veer into oncoming traffic by putting tiny barely perceptible stickers onto the road. These stickers were perceived by the autopilot as lane markings with a high level of confidence resulting in the vehicle swerving into what would have been oncoming traffic.
The problem with vehicles is that, in many cases, patching the error after the problem has occurred is not good enough as human lives are at stake.
Read the article at Forbes.