System and method for autonomous vehicle intrusion counter-measures

An autonomous vehicle, comprising:

• a processor;
• a computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
• determining that an intrusion attempt on the autonomous vehicle is being made as the autonomous vehicle is traveling, to yield a determination;
• isolating, in response to the determination, critical functions of the autonomous vehicle;
• initiating an autonomous mode for the autonomous vehicle, the autonomous mode ignoring outside communications until a pre-defined condition is met;
• identifying a safe stopping zone, including identifying a current location of the autonomous vehicle;
• identifying a route back to a pre-defined stopping zone;
• determining movement of the autonomous vehicle via the route back to the pre-defined stopping zone is not compliant with a current status of the autonomous vehicle;
• identifying, within a geographic radius of the current location of the autonomous vehicle, features which are not conducive with a stopping location;
• selecting the safe stopping zone based on avoiding the features which are not conducive;
• and
• directing, while in the autonomous mode, the autonomous vehicle to the safe stopping zone.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions which, when executed by a computing device, causes the computing device to perform operations comprising:

• determining that an intrusion attempt on an autonomous vehicle is being made as the autonomous vehicle is traveling, to yield a determination;
• isolating, in response to the determination, critical functions of the autonomous vehicle;
• initiating an autonomous mode for the autonomous vehicle, the autonomous mode ignoring outside communications until a pre-defined condition is met;
• identifying a safe stopping zone;
• directing, while in the autonomous mode, the autonomous vehicle to the safe stopping zone,
• identifying a geographic source of the intrusion attempt;
• adding the geographic source to a map of threats, to yield an updated map;
• and
• utilizing the updated map to plan a future route of the autonomous vehicle.