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lunasun

(21,646 posts)
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 03:32 AM Jan 2018

Baidu: Self-driving cars raise fears over weaponisation

https://www.ft.com/content/a8dbd4e0-f807-11e7-88f7-5465a6ce1a00?segmentId=ea1dd4c0-c7c8-c198-8a10-2ba258aa73e0
You have an object that can move by itself , by definition a "weapon"
They could be used as weapons but on the other hand in the future it wouldn't allow something like the car in London or Charlottesville to hit someone and it would stop no matter who is driving
There is good and bad
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