Comment by bijant
The Register stooping this low is the only surprise here. I'm quite critical of Teslas approach to level 3+ autonomy but even I wouldn't dare suggest that there vision based approach amounted to bolting GPT-4o or some other VLLM to their cars to orient them in space and make navigation decisions. Fake News like this makes interacting with people who have no domain knowledge and consider The Register, UCLA and Johns Hopkins to be reputable institutions and credible sources more stressful to me as I'll be put into a position to tell people that they have been misled or go along with their delusions...
> consider The Register, UCLA and Johns Hopkins to be reputable institutions
The Register is arguably misrepresenting the story by omission but I don't understand why you're dragging UCLA and John Hopkins into this? The paper is clear about this being a new class of attacks against a new class of AI systems, not the ones on the road today.
> Teslas approach to level 3+ autonomy
Tesla doesn't have an approach to L3+ autonomy, all of their systems are strictly L2 as they require human supervision and immediate action from the driver.