FBI Concerned About Criminals Using Driverless Cars

gurps_npc (621217) writes As per the Guardian, The FBI is concerned about dirverless cars. It discussed issues such as letting criminals shoot while the car drives (silly in my opinion, apparently they haven't heard of "partners" or considered requiring such cars have a police controlled "slow down" command), the use of such vehicles as guided bullets (safeties again should stop this), and loading it with explosives and using it as a guided missile. This last concern is the only one that I considered a real issue, but even that is not significantly more dangerous than loading up a regular van full of explosives with a timer, then setting the timer to explode before you leave the vehicle next to a school, etc.

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Automation is killing jobs faster than ever

[intertrode]

Automation is killing jobs faster than we've ever imagined. Even suicide bombers are being rendered useless.

Re:Automation is killing jobs faster than ever

[Anonymous Coward]

I think it would be funny to steal cars and program to circle the Beltway endlessly until they run out of gas. We could see how many we could get going at once. It'd be even better if we could put them into 'Senior Citizen' mode, where they randomly speed up and slow down, and change lanes without signalling.

Re:In Iraq?

[i.r.id10t]

Car heaven is where the mechanics are German, the drivers are Italian, and the leather is maintained by a British butler.