Messing with machines have a way lower ethical threshold for most people.

Like fooling vending machines to give you soda. Nothing 'my teenage friend' lost sleep over.

> Messing with machines have a way lower ethical threshold for most people

We’re in the regime of throwing rocks at a freeway from a bridge to cutting brake lines as a prank. The attack surface here isn’t new and isn’t difficult to think through. Someone who can’t is going to be equally dangerous, machine or man.

I don't think e.g. 'kids' will see it like cutting a brake line.

I agree, as a former ECU programmer, though. I am terrified of drive by wire.

More like making the Google computer do silly things.

More comparable would be the prank of tying some soda tin cans in a string to the exhaust etc, in how I believe my scapegoat kids would see it.

There are also (stupid) people who like to point laser pointers to helicopter pilots...