On October 25, 2023 , Dr. Erald Troja- Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Undergraduate Cybersecurity Systems Program at St. John’s University gave a virtual talk from an empirical and a systems-based perspective on how surrounding textual information can be leveraged towards the mitigation of Autonomous Vehicle (AV) and self-driving cars Global Positioning System (GPS) signal spoofing attacks. He discussed methods of how AVs and self-driving cars can extract, as they travel along a trajectory, surrounding textual information through machine-learning based Scene Text Recognition (STR).