Small stickers on the ground trick Tesla autopilot into steering into opposing traffic lane / Boing Boing

https://boingboing.net/2019/03/31/mote-in-cars-eye.html

Researchers from Tencent Keen Security Lab have published a report detailing their successful attacks on Tesla firmware, including remote control over the steering, and an adversarial example attack on the autopilot that confuses the car into driving into the oncoming traffic lane.

The researchers used an attack chain that they disclosed to Tesla, and which Tesla now claims has been eliminated with recent patches.

Wielding Rocks and Knives, Arizonans Attack Self-Driving Cars - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/us/waymo-self-driving-cars-arizona-attacks.html

Some people have pelted Waymo vans with rocks, according to police reports. Others have repeatedly tried to run the vehicles off the road.

Another Tesla with Autopilot crashed into a stationary object

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/10/man-sues-tesla-says-autopilot-steered-him-into-a-stalled-car-at-80-mph/

These systems are not sophisticated enough to distinguish a stationary object on the road from one that’s next to or above the road. To make the problem easier to handle, the cars may just ignore stationary objects

Driverless Cars Should Spare Young People Over Old in Unavoidable Accidents

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evw3w7/driverless-cars-spare-young-people-over-old-in-a-car-accident-moral-machine-survey-find

In the Moral Machine Experiment, a survey of more than two million people from 233 countries, people preferred to save humans over animals, young over old, and more people over fewer.

Analysis of all 88 traffic accidents involving autonomous vehicles in California from 2014-2018 shows that autonomous vehicles were at fault in seven accidents - Axios

https://www.axios.com/california-people-cause-most-autonomous-vehicle-accidents-dc962265-c9bb-4b00-ae97-50427f6bc936.html

at the moment, self-driving car tech doesn’t seem to be advanced enough to handle all these humans.

Tesla with Autopilot slams into truck stopped at red light - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/tesla-with-autopilot-slams-into-truck-stopped-at-red-light/2018/05/12/18d2e740-563e-11e8-a6d4-ca1d035642ce_story.html

rear-ended a fire department truck