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Re:Autonomous drone defeats human champions in racing first by bamboozled on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @08:19PM (#44187030)
Can you drive a van into a group of people without even being physically present though ?
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Re:Autonomous drone defeats human champions in racing first by tonyarkles on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @10:20PM (#44187762)
Yes. https://www.psu.edu/news/campus-life/story/hackers-who-remot...

Even without vulnerabilities like that, something like https://comma.ai/openpilot could very likely be used in the same way ArduPilot was used in the recent Ukrainian drone attacks.

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Re:Autonomous drone defeats human champions in racing first by lazide on Thursday June 05, 2025 @05:20AM (#44189858)
easier than a drone, technically. using the same tools and techniques too.

a van is just a bigger, more inherently stable drone.

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Re:Autonomous drone defeats human champions in racing first by eternauta3k on Friday June 06, 2025 @08:00AM (#44199959)
The RAF guys tried this back in 1967 to attack the Iranian Shah...
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