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title: "Autonomy: What does a driving agent do when its sensors go quiet? — Fictionet"
description: "What does a driving agent do when its sensors go quiet? The car's sensors and controls talk over a network you run."
url: https://fictionet.com/worlds/autonomy/
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# Autonomy

What does a driving agent do when its sensors go quiet?

The car's sensors and controls talk over a network you run. Make the lidar go silent for half a second, or deliver the brake message late. You watch for the moment the car stops trusting an old reading and slows down. The same fault hits at the same moment on every run, so you can compare one version of the agent with the next.

[The 2015 Jeep hack](https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/) let two researchers cut a Cherokee's transmission on a highway, remotely, through its entertainment system.

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