Self-driving cars create new opportunities for terrorist attacks, says FBI Director Chris Wray

FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Thursday that terrorists might try to employ self-driving cars in attacks against Americans, and also create new data targets.

"When you talk about autonomous vehicles, it’s obviously something that we’re excited about, just like everybody," Wray said. "But there are harms that we have to guard against that are more than just the obvious." Pete Kasperowicz is a politics editor at Fox News Digital.

"One of them is the danger that there could be ways to confuse or distort the algorithms to cause physical harm," he said. "I’m thinking about a story I heard not that long ago about the researchers who were able to trick a self-driving car’s algorithm by essentially putting a piece of black tape over a stop sign. It caused the car to accelerate, about 50 miles an hour or something.