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Don’t even need the bomb part, just command it to drive through a crowd on a national holiday / event. No driver to shoot dead.

I’m surprised someone hasn’t hooked up a remote control interface to an existing car.

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Or hack the network they're all connected to and direct hoards of cars traveling at maximum speed into your target.

This kind of stuff was done in the Daemon/Freedom sci-fi books, which are entertaining and becoming concerningly less fiction with every passing year.

If they’re capable of acting on such a command, somebody has messed up.

That’s not to say it won’t happen (Uber) but it shouldn’t.

That's a good point. A stock standard autonomous vehicle ought not be able to. One wonders at how much modification would be necessary to override or bypass any software / hardware lockouts.

So you order the $30 mod chip that will definitely exist.

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