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I fully expect a new genre of prank videos to emerge. Self-driving cars with cameras make for perfect targets. Innocent people will be involuntary passengers
by dublinben 11y ago
I fully expect a new genre of prank videos to emerge. Self-driving cars with cameras make for perfect targets. Innocent people will be involuntary passengers for a Grand Theft Auto style rampage that is livestreamed for the world to see.
- grkvlt 11y agoReally? Do you imagine the only thing stopping people from trying to kill random strangers is the fact they currently have to get up out of bed to do it? Because it can't be the fear of getting caught, since the perpetrators of any vehicular malware that kills people will be caught...
- pavel_lishin 11y agoIf the fear of getting caught prevented people from committing crimes, jails would be empty.
- grkvlt 11y agoExactly, so according to the people worried about killer malware, the only thing stopping our population of latent murdering sociopaths is the fact that it's currently too much physical effort to go and sabotage some sandom vehicle? As I said, this seems unlikely to me...