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Man, I really don't like self driving cars. In the future, government assassinations will just be done by hacking your car and driving you off a bridge. Plausib
by beeflet 2y ago
Man, I really don't like self driving cars. In the future, government assassinations will just be done by hacking your car and driving you off a bridge. Plausible deniability at the push of a button.
- cratermoon 2y agoI suspect that driving a well-defined path to a loading dock a quarter mile away is fool-proof enough even a Tesla could manage it.
- zippyman55 2y agoThat would be some Segway.
- tenpies 2y agoYou probably don't need the "in the future" part. We know that CIA was looking into infiltrating the embedded systems in vehicles since as early as 2014, thanks to Wikileak: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15342464/cias-alleged-foray-into-car-hacking-should-come-as-no-surprise/ https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15342464/cias-alleged-for... One year before that, in 2013, the death of Michael Hastings was incredibly suspicious and matched what one of these assassinations would look like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)#Controversy_over_alleged_foul_play https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist)#...
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- IcePic 2y agoDon't see it as a huge improvement if they cut the wires to my breaks before I drive down a mountain. Sure, someone can possibly tell it was tampered with, but I will be as dead as you.