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It's hard to imagine 100 years from now that guns won't be smart. The only question is when and how they are implemented. IMHO: 'smart' guns will be first about
by johngalt 11y ago
It's hard to imagine 100 years from now that guns won't be smart. The only question is when and how they are implemented. IMHO: 'smart' guns will be first about improving their effectiveness not safety. Similar to things like tracking point.
- logfromblammo 11y agoPrimers and firing pins replaced by magnetoelectric ignition. Trigger used to designate targets, while the smart electronics use gyros and lasers to fire only when the loaded ammunition is most likely to hit the designated target. The safety lock might possibly be disengaged by numeric PIN or capacitative gesture recognition (like playing a certain sequence of notes on a theremin). Biometrics and proximity-based authorization tokens will have been discarded as untenable long before.
- chroma 11y agoI agree. I think future "smart" abilities in guns will be things like target detection. For example, I could see a fire selector for "safe", "semi-auto", and "vital areas only". Flip it to the latter and if you hold down the trigger, a computer vision system only fires a round when it determines you're going to hit a vital part of a person/animal/whatever. TrackPoint sorta had the beginnings of that, but it was intended for long range.