Could be cover for a new secret weapon.
Posted on 09/16/2019 8:23:01 PM PDT by lasereye
You are correct....writer just looking for something to stir the pot. You could load up a bass boat with enough explosives to take down a cruise-boat...if you desired to do so.
Could be cover for a new secret weapon.
They are not drones. Drones have no pilot IN them. Try harder next time.
As Scotty Kilmer says, driverless cars and cars with drivers cannot coexist on the road. You have to either have one or the other. So it will never work.
Driverless cars are here. Really.
They seem to be getting along fine together. Only thing stopping driverless cars now is regulators, and they’ll approve once test models are shown to be better drivers than people (which they are now).
I fully agree. Ifor one will NEVER get in a car operated by a computer....never.
“...why it’s illegal to operate a drone near an airport or a city center anywhere in America today.”
Yup. Some law is going to stop jihadi bad guys from operating explosives-laden drones in city centers or around airports.
“Sorry Ahmed, no jihad with drones today! The diabolical Americans passed a law that says we can’t fly them at the airport!”
Ahmed: “Allah curse the diabolical Americans for their brilliance! I guess it’s back to the falafel stand for us, right?”
(with credit to Key and Peele for their original “diabolical TSA” gag ;-)
Telefon
Driverless cars are nothing more than earthbound cruise missiles waiting to be filled with an explosive payload.
” But what is a driverless car, if not a 5,000-pound, land-based drone?”
Very good point! Never thought of that.
Genius, what's stopping them now?
re: “Let’s also recall Timothy McVeigh. I don’t recall all details, but didn’t he park a truck full of explosives at that federal building in Oklahoma City? I think he drove it in and parked it at the target?”
Yes.
Driverless cars are an idea that will not survive First Contact with the American tort bar.
Better movie analogy would be ‘Maximum Overdrive’. Wait, maybe it is ‘Killdozer’.
“Driverless cars are here. Really.”
In the East Valley of Phoenix Alphabet, Inc. (Google) has numerous WayMo self driving cars running around all over the place. I see one myself nearly every other day.
I was in one yesterday (passenger).
Driver tapped “Autopilot” and took his hands off the wheel. Car did fine staying in lines on its own, even auto-braked when not clear whether another truck was going to stop at an intersection. Nobody was driving it, even remotely.
Owner hadn’t purchased the “full self driving” package ($$$) but it can be added, enabling the car to drive completely on its own (just set destination). There’s no “remote driver”.
When self driving cars are demonstrably (in insurance terms) 10x safer than human drivers, we won’t just see them survive tort law, there will be a growing call to mandate the feature.
Nope, what we have amounts to nothing more than a glorified cab. There may not be anyone behind the wheel but someone is driving. It may be indirectly in the form of computer code but they are still driving the vehicle and that person, persons or entity will ultimately decide if the cab will go where you want, when you want.
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