Tesla's Autopilot can be HACKED as experts reveal how easy it is to sabotage the Model S

In May, a Tesla S car in Autopilot mode tragically crashed, killing the car's driver, after it failed to recognise a white trailer in its path. The devastating event led people to question the safety of autonomous feature, and whether someone could sabotage a self-driving vehicle. Researchers have now used off-the-shelf materials to trick a Tesla car's Autopilot sensors, showing just how easy it is to hack the technology into missing objects in its path. By infiltrating all three, the researchers found that only the radar attacks have the potential to cause a high-speed collision. The researchers jammed the radio signals used by the Tesla car's radar sensor, which is located under the front grill, and showed that this caused a car in its path to'disappear'.