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I hope not. After the Budweiser / Uber test I had an idea for a film script. Red necks with pre-electronic cars and an improvised EMP device are running around
by wmil 9y ago
I hope not. After the Budweiser / Uber test I had an idea for a film script.
Red necks with pre-electronic cars and an improvised EMP device are running around hijacking self driving beer trucks.
I was thinking it would be kind of Fast & Furious style.
- pc86 9y agoWhy rednecks? There's a reason the mob would steal cigarette trucks then sell them below market value: quick cash.
- Retric 9y agoAlso a High value : weight ratio and easy storage which is where beer fails.
- HeyLaughingBoy 9y agoI'd pay to watch a movie about the Redneck Mob. "Hey, Vinny. Hold my beer and watch this!"
- influx 9y agoYou're missing a remake of Smokey and the Bandit!
- wonderbread23 9y agoLmao This is great. I would watch it
- stale2002 9y agoThis fear is overblown. You can do everything you mentioned already. Just put up a barrier on a road to stop the truck, and then shoot the driver. Police aren't going to be able to protect drivers in the middle of nowhere. Now ask yourself, why does this not happen right now?
- Marazan 9y agoErrr because murder is a really serious crime?
- imesh 9y agoNobody is going to stay up at night having nightmares about the time they still beer from a big company. Very few people are actually capable of being murderers.
- dismantlethesun 9y agoBecause police are more inclined to pursue crimes with a human victim. It's like the difference between robbery and burglery being where someone is in the house or not. One gets harder look because there is a terrified victim and escalation could've meant death. The other is just property loss.
- zip1234 9y agoRandomly put a guy in 1/5 trucks but make the guy not visible. Loudly state on the outside of the trucks that many trucks are manned. Criminals have no way of knowing which trucks have people and which don't.
- Pxtl 9y agoBecause murder is much more serious than just stealing stuff. Somebody killing every trucker on the road? Cops swarming. Somebody making off with your merch? Ask a loss prevention officer how much cops care about that.
- code_duck 9y agoPerhaps you should ask yourself why that doesn't happen now. The driver is the part that makes it difficult. Even if one had no moral qualms about murder, law enforcement and the public would be much more concerned about homicide vs merely property destruction and theft. If you were to just hijack a beer truck and nobody got hurt, I bet the average member of the public would hear about that in 'funny news'. If you killed the driver, you'd be infamous and hunted down.
- Houshalter 9y agoIs it really easier to hijack a self driving truck than a manned one? You can just point a gun at the driver. And there probably aren't any cameras or sensors on the manned truck. Whenever a new technology comes along, people come up with tons of ways it could be abused and so won't work. I mean look at all the speculation around drones the past few years. The reality is most of our existing technology can be abused by creative people just the same way. The only reason society doesn't fall apart is because criminals happen to be fairly rare.
- adrianmonk 9y agoPointing a gun at a person is a different crime than computer hacking.
- defen 9y ago> You can just point a gun at the driver. Yeah but now you're looking at 20-30 years for armed robbery instead of being just the good ol' boys never meanin' no harm, just makin' their way the only way they know, that's just a little bit more than the law will allow.
- kjksf 9y agoLaws aren't static. If that happens often then we'll amend the law to increase punishment for this particular crime, just like we made a single act of copyright infringement worth up to $150k.
- throwaway2048 9y agoOr they could amend the law to fire you out of a cannon into the sun! What will that dastardly congress do next.
- stcredzero 9y agothe good ol' boys never meanin' no harm, just makin' their way the only way they know, that's just a little bit more than the law will allow. The current political climate would never allow a car painted like that!
- Pxtl 9y agoI assume this would quickly be stamped out by sending convoys of trucks with a single driver/guard supervising it. So instead of 1 driver per-truck, you have a 5-truck convoy with a single on-site monitor/driver/supervisor/guard.
- stcredzero 9y agoRed necks with pre-electronic cars and an improvised EMP device are running around hijacking self driving beer trucks. I was thinking it would be kind of Fast & Furious style. Fast & Furious!? Go back further! Smokey & the Bandit! That's exactly the sort of thing they would do, if someone with a TARDIS plonked the Snowman and Bandit into the 21st century! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_and_the_Bandit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_and_the_Bandit