Did you watch Total Recall and wish you could fuck up JohnnyCab? Driverless vehicles are here at last and practically ripe for the hacking. Autonomous and unmanned systems already patrol our skies and oceans, and are being tested on our streets, highways and sidewalks. All trends indicate these systems are at an inflection point that will show them rapidly becoming commonplace. It is therefore a salient time for a discussion of their capabilities and potential vulnerabilities.
This session will be an informative and light-hearted look at the current state of civil driverless vehicles and what hackers or other reprobates might do to mess with them. Topics covered will include the full suite of common and proposed sensors, decision profiles and potential failure modes that could be exploited. This talk aims to both inspire unmanned vehicle designers and end users to think about robustness to adversarial and malicious scenarios, and to give the paranoid false hope of resisting the robot revolution.