When Roads Get Hacked

08/10/2025 5 min
When Roads Get Hacked

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Episode Synopsis

A tiny sticker on a stop sign can fool an autonomous vehicle’s vision—no laptop needed. Professor Ali Chehab (American University of Beirut) explains a new “seatbelt for perception”: a model-agnostic defense that rides alongside existing self-driving software to catch adversarial tricks on road signs and lane markers in real time.