- Marking new lines on the road
- Shooting the driver
- Throwing paint at the windshield
These papers keep coming out of the flavor, "look, you can do this malicious thing which has malicious results". Well... yeah, you can. This is entirely unsurprising and I can only assume these papers are being written/funded by some group with a vested interest to stop autonomous driving.
If anything, it could be supporting evidence against cars without manual controls for human intervention. Like the rumored-for-300-years Apple Car that claimed it would have no controls of any kind, or some kind of shuttle service.
Of course manual intervention still might not be all that effective if you're barreling toward a pedestrian and not paying any attention...
For one, a human driver would know they’ve been blinded by a laser (or something) and probably hit the breaks. Thus, you could say the human driver is acutely aware that something exceptional occurred.
In this case it wasn’t complete blindness but more like creating a blind spot in a certain spot in the field. However, and more importantly, the car doesn’t realize this blind spot is there or that anything exceptional has occurred and just keeps going.