External Manipulation of Autonomous Vehicles

The expectation of spreading autonomous vehicles lies in the hope of significantly decreasing the 1,3 million death toll accidents worldwide, which are caused by human factor 90% of the time. In policies of insurance companies the reaction time of a human realizing any dangerous situation, reacting to it and putting the breaks into action is two seconds. The reaction time would be reduced by the power of AI that can process the huge amount of data coming from sensors and with the information regarding the situation could make decision much faster than men. Until the end of November 2018 Tesla cars travelled one billion miles in self-driven mode using the Autopilot software which was issued in 2015. The mileage is five times of the Sun-Earth distance. The accidents statistics of the journey showed one accident or accident-like incident every 3.34 million miles. According to the US Department of Transportation there is an accident every 492 thousand miles in America, making the self-driven mode seven times more safe. The aim of this paper is to discuss situations and scenarios when artificial intelligence of vehicles could be confused or influenced to make bad decisions danger on passengers' lives.