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Autonomous vehicles should be required to have a “kill zone”: a little square—away from any potential passengers—that cops can shoot to disable the vehicle enti
by jcoder 3y ago
Autonomous vehicles should be required to have a “kill zone”: a little square—away from any potential passengers—that cops can shoot to disable the vehicle entirely. If it were a human driving into a crime scene they wouldn’t hesitate, how come when it’s a driverless car all they can say is “oh, hey, stop… what should we do here?”
- colechristensen 3y agoThis is a terrible terrible idea.
- jcoder 3y agoSure it’s extreme, but I’d argue the “terrible terrible” idea is allowing the tyranny of beta software to run roughshod on the road, while the humans have to cope
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoThis is the most American solution to a problem that I have encountered for quite some time.
- bombcar 3y agoSomeone doesn’t know how guns work, and it’s not the wombat.
- playingalong 3y agoNot only an American solution, but also an American problem.
- nullsense 3y agoIt's called the tyres.