Eisenhower and his ambitious interstate highway system transformed the US into a nation with infrastructure primarily designed around cars and large machinery. As we  roll out more autonomous vehicles and implement machine vision more broadly in public spaces, we’re going to again redefine who public spaces are designed for. There’s a lot in here, but I don’t have enough to write a full exploration yet.

McAfee technicians fooled the car into reading the speed limit as 85 miles per hour by placing black tape across the middle of the first digit on a 35 mile per hour sign. That caused the vehicle’s cruise control system to automatically accelerate, according to McAfee. The tests involved a 2016 Model S and Model X that used technology made by Mobileye, a division of Intel. Tesla stopped using the company’s camera systems in 2016. The newest Tesla models do not use Mobileye technology “and do not currently appear to support traffic sign recognition at all,” McAfee researchers Steve Povolny and Shivangee Trivedi wrote in a blog post.

“Traffic sign fonts are determined by regulators, and so advanced driver-assistance systems are primarily focused on other more challenging use cases, and this system in particular was designed to support human drivers — not autonomous driving,” a Mobileye spokesperson said by email. “Autonomous vehicle technology will not rely on sensing alone, but will also be supported by various other technologies and data, such as crowdsourced mapping, to ensure the reliability of the information received from the camera sensor and offer more robust redundancies and safety.”

Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-tricked-into-speeding-by-researchers-using-electrical-tape/