Cybersecurity issues of highly automated transport systems are among the most relevant and poorly developed at the moment. Experiments show that any drone can be "hacked" today, reported at last year's X Director of the Department of Radio-Electronic Industry of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Vasily Shpak.
He stressed that transport is a component of critical transport infrastructure. The ability to intercept the control of unmanned vehicles poses threats to people and the country's transport system as a whole.
According to the representative of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, cybersecurity issues are a priority.
In November 2018, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the beginning of test tests of drones on public roads in Moscow and Tatarstan. According to the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation from March 1, 2020, drones can be tested not only in Moscow and Tatarstan, but also in the Vladimir, Leningrad, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Novgorod, Samara regions, as well as in Chuvashia, Khanty-Mansi and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Districts, Krasnodar Territory and St. Petersburg. The pilot operation of drones will last until March 1, 2022. According to its results, a large government commission will be assembled, which will determine the requirements for the operation of unmanned vehicles, as well as develop the necessary standards for the industry.
It is worth noting that this problem is not the first year raised by experts around the world. For example, in 2017, researchers from the University of Freiburg and the Bosch Center for the Study of Artificial Intelligence showed that hackers can hide pedestrians or other types of obstacles on the road from an autonomous car or manipulate a static camera to hide a crime.