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Re:Massachusetts to tax ride-hailing apps, give the money to... by zigzigzag on Sunday August 21, 2016 @06:36AM (#12330310)
It doesn't really make sense. Banditry requires someone to threaten. If there's no driver and the machine is locked in transit anyway, then all you need are doors where time to cut them open is greater than time for police to arrive and banditry doesn't make sense.

Without people you can also do tricks like electrifying the chassis, so anyone who tries to touch it gets an electric shock.

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Re:Massachusetts to tax ride-hailing apps, give the money to... by lgieron on Sunday August 21, 2016 @08:57AM (#12330774)
> Without people you can also do tricks like electrifying the chassis, so anyone who tries to touch it gets an electric shock.

Or a computer vision system connected to a machine gun. (sarcasm)

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