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Petit developed "a kind of  Self-driving cars, which were initially popularized by Google but are now in the works at most major car makers, are widely viewed as a means to reduce congestion and improve safety on our roads. Self-driving cars use a series of sensors,  The trouble, however, is that a self-driving car's reliance upon laser-ranging systems, called Lidar, makes it susceptible to Petit's hack, he said. Lidar, which is not used in every self-driving vehicle technology, but is running in some, attempts to create a 3D rendering of the car's surroundings by using pulses of  According to RAVEN Chief Pilot Deputy Doug Russell, " 

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But by using a low-power laser hackers could trick the lidar into detecting echoes of fake objects, such as pedestrians, cyclists, other cars or walls, according to a paper by Jonathan Petit, a research then a fellow of University of Cork's Computer Security Group.

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