Certainly entertaining though.
I enjoyed that 'smart car' joke that went "I was standing in the garage because I had forgotten where I had parked my self driving car, then it hit me."
Or maybe the artist is just a lazy anti-AI person and I am giving him too much credit. But I wouldn't say it's a foregone conclusion.
Because a self-driving car wouldn't have any reason to drive into the circle, so it wouldn't get "caught".
The actual reason a regular car is used is because this is an "art installation" and not a serious critique of self-driving algorithms.
A more effective trap would be a "no entry" sign on a one-way street (or one side of a dual carriageway), positioned so the car can't see it before entering the street.
reminds me of rollercoaster tycoon where you could trap guests indefinitely by using that technique.
See the XKCD "Highway Engineer Pranks" for examples!
The British government responded by making destroying mechanized looms a capital offense, and deploying the army against them.
An orwellian, neworked device with hundreds of sensors, cameras, laser scanners? Not so easy.
Maybe in the future it'll be impossible to get away with things like that in the future.
Truckers are very well organized, both officially via unions and informally via radio shows, newsletters, online forums, and the like.
Not that it will accomplish much, but it will be a lively transiton.
Like the mischief being mentioned against trucks and Uber's by drivers (we can almost guarantee this will happen), what about just strait up traps for robbery?
There were some cases of this with the Pokémon game right?
