Automated Driving Systems Seizure

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Emergency Vehicle Lights Can Screw Up a Car's Automated Driving System

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A new paper from researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Japanese technology firm Fujitsu Limited demonstrates that when some camera-based automated driving systems are exposed to the flashing lights of emergency vehicles, they can no longer confidently identify objects on the road.

The researchers call the phenomenon a “digital epileptic seizure”—epilepticar for short—where the systems, trained by artificial intelligence to distinguish between images of different road objects, fluctuate in effectiveness in time with the emergency lights’ flashes.

How a system might react to flashing lights depends on how individual automakers design their automated driving systems.

Some may choose to “tune” their technology to react to things it’s not entirely certain are actually obstacles.

Others may tune their tech to react only when it is very confident that what it's seeing is an obstacle.

The BGU and Fujitsu researchers came with a software fix to the emergency flasher issue.

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