Re:Google's Driverless Future
by pkandathil on Friday May 10, 2013 @11:26AM
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A person in security told me that a big fear they have is car bombs. You would now be able to send groups of cars to a location without risking human life. That us good enough reason to not want self driving cars. I still think some of the functionality can be used for accident prevention.
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Car accidents kill orders of magnitude more people than terrorists do. I think even if the number of car bombings jumped to 10 times its current level with autonomous cars society would still likely come out ahead.
Would that also have been a good enough reason not to want regular cars?
Yeah that's a bit like not allowing mobile phones because they can detonate bombs.
Well, that would require at least one suicide bomber.
Its a legitimate concern, you wouldnt want a car getting hacked and doing all kinds of stuff, like deliberately causing an accident.