New crime strategies will probably appear soon after self-driving cars become common.
For example, a group of people may block the entire road, forcing the car to stop. A human might recognize this as a criminal attack and choose to just keep going, but a self-driving car will stop. (That is, a strategy that would be “too expensive” against humans may be profitable against self-driving cars.)
You could also block the road using dummies or cardboard silhouettes or whatever the car’s algorithm would recognize as “a human”. You could even use them strategically to make the car crash into a wall, giving the algorithm a dilemma between killing 1 or 2 humans inside, or dozens of “humans” on the road.
EDIT: Ah, I see this is the point the article makes.
New crime strategies will probably appear soon after self-driving cars become common.
For example, a group of people may block the entire road, forcing the car to stop. A human might recognize this as a criminal attack and choose to just keep going, but a self-driving car will stop. (That is, a strategy that would be “too expensive” against humans may be profitable against self-driving cars.)
You could also block the road using dummies or cardboard silhouettes or whatever the car’s algorithm would recognize as “a human”. You could even use them strategically to make the car crash into a wall, giving the algorithm a dilemma between killing 1 or 2 humans inside, or dozens of “humans” on the road.
EDIT: Ah, I see this is the point the article makes.