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Autonomous vehicles can be fooled to 'see' nonexistent obstacles

  • Written by Yulong Cao, Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
Autonomous vehicles can be fooled to 'see' nonexistent obstaclesLiDAR helps an autonomous vehicle 'visualize' what's around it.Yulong Can with data from Baidu Apollo, CC BY-ND

Nothing is more important to an autonomous vehicle than sensing what’s happening around it. Like human drivers, autonomous vehicles need the ability to make instantaneous decisions.

Today, most autonomous vehicles rely on multiple...

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