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You don’t even need to make a change to hardware. Fly a big enough drone into a building and it’s lethal.

• giancarlostoro 8y ago
  You could do that with a regular privately owned airplane too, and arguably more damage.
  • zaarn 8y ago
    Yes but you can build or buy drones in much larger quantities for cheap. With enough planning you could target weakpoints in the structure and bring down a large building more reliably than with an airplane and with less loss of life (on your side).
  • hannasanarion 8y ago
    but without sacrificing any of your people, or even needing people to be involved. If US drones were autonomous, then somebody could press the "destroy islamabad" button and they'd all take off, fire all their missiles, and crash into buildings on their own, with no humans involved. That's the kind of capability we want to avoid. Robots are cheap, people are not.
    • isostatic 8y ago
      > Robots are cheap, people are not. Depends on the country