FBI Concerned About Criminals Using Driverless Cars

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FBI Concerned About Criminals Using Driverless Cars

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @04:55AM from the ban-everything dept.

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 by intertrode · 2014-07-16 04:58 · Score: 5, Funny

Automation is killing jobs faster than we've ever imagined. Even suicide bombers are being rendered useless.
1. Re:Automation is killing jobs faster than ever by Anonymous Coward · 2014-07-16 05:10 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  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.
2. Re:Automation is killing jobs faster than ever by ShanghaiBill · 2014-07-16 05:12 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Automation is killing jobs faster than we've ever imagined. Even suicide bombers are being rendered useless.
  No problem. They can all get jobs with the FBI, and work in the Scare Mongering Department. They are really busy.
3. Re:Automation is killing jobs faster than ever by Russ1642 · 2014-07-16 05:46 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  I've always respected construction zones until I saw the abuse in Alberta. They put their signs up days before they do any work. They put them way too far before the real work. When they're working very close to the road they'll not put signs up at all. It's just a clusterfark. A construction zone sign pretty much means nothing because the construction workers have abused the system so much.
4. Re:Automation is killing jobs faster than ever by bloodhawk · 2014-07-16 10:35 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  You are using the wrong numbers. you can't do a direct comparison of age to accidents, you need to include distance travelled. I would be willing to bet that after 75 the distance driven is only a fraction of the average for 34-44 year olds yet they have as many accidents. but since you didn't include that data what you have is pretty meaningless.
Re: Here it comes by AvitarX · 2014-07-16 05:06 · Score: 5, Insightful

They won't even need a button. I highly doubt an automated car will proceed to pilot itself on a high speed chase, or ignore red and blue lights.
Fbi should go back to consulting their Internet slang dictionary, rather than trying to think.

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Re:don't drive with nobody in it? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-07-16 05:11 · Score: 5, Insightful

No, that's silly. After my robocar takes me to work, I should be able to send it back home to pick up my wife so she can run errands.
Obivious FBI is obvious by ThatsNotPudding · 2014-07-16 05:12 · Score: 5, Insightful

"Due to this threat, we must have the ability to totally control driverless cars... and cars with drivers... and all electronic devices... and we need to track people in real time for the entirety of their lives..."
Re:don't drive with nobody in it? by dpidcoe · 2014-07-16 05:14 · Score: 5, Insightful

That would remove a huge amount of the utility of driverless cars. Things like having it drop you off at the airport, or let you out at the mall while it finds a place to park, or any other number of other activities that require a bit of preplanning and someone else to drive (and often be inconvenienced for it).
Re:don't drive with nobody in it? by jeIIomizer · 2014-07-16 05:14 · Score: 5, Insightful

How about stop trying to place restrictions on things just because they could be abused. We're supposed to be 'the land of the free,' for fuck's sake. This is just embarrassing.

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Re:In Iraq? by i.r.id10t · 2014-07-16 05:15 · Score: 5, Funny

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

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What will cops do for their Quota? by CimmerianX · 2014-07-16 05:22 · Score: 5, Interesting

IF everyone is in an automatic car that obeys all traffic laws all the time, will there be no more traffic tickets?
If an auto ca can drop someone off at the airport then drive back home, what will happen to all the long term parking garages?
If an auto car will find it's own parking space, is that the end of valets?
I for one am happy to see all that crap come to an end.
Re:Less. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-07-16 05:53 · Score: 5, Interesting

You are clearly imagination challenged. You don't use it to get away. You use it to stash all your stolen stuff in, send it 300 miles away, while you take some other route. Let the cops chase you. You've got no incriminating evidence.
you use 10 of them to send explosives to places you aren't going to be. while they're busy responding, you steal whatever.
You fill it full of drugs and send it off somewhere. It's the best drug mule ever, BECAUSE it follows all the laws. Why would it ever get pulled over? The FBI is right. The illegal uses are many and varied.