Driverless cars via GPS, the tech is here now.

[ponderingturtle]

Am I the only Top Gear fan here?

They had a BMW that, using global positioning, drove itself around their test track after it had been shown a lap. And it didn't creep around like something out of DARPA. It drove hard and fast, braking for turns only at the last second.

That is a much more constrained enviroment, it so it does not need to see and interperate the road ahead.

How did it deal with traffic?

 

[BenBurch]

Tim McVeigh didn't seem to have much of a problem.

Got caught.

With this, there is never any reason to get caught.

 

[ponderingturtle]

Got caught.

With this, there is never any reason to get caught.

He never had a reason to get caught, he just did not sufficiently hide his connection to the vehical. That is what you have not described is why such vehicals would need to be so open that you could move large quantities of material arround annonamously. That would be great for people needing to make deliveries as they don't have to pay for any of the miles and so on.

As from the bomb makers point of view it is not much different if you use a driverless car or a driven car with someone else driving, it does not seem to be a serious change in security.

 

[Scazon]

My sister in law spent from nine thirty to eleven thirty at night driving in circles before she got the last 3 miles to the camp site where we were meeting. That was with GPS.

But wotthehell. We already have a technology to guide vehicles to anywhere in the city, and it's much more fuel- efficient than a car. It's called a tram (or streetcar to some).

 

[Spud1k]

Terrorists had no need to have suicide car bombs ten years ago. Whipping up a remote control car is trivial at best. I am really surprised they haven't done it all ready.

Hollywood got there first. Ever seen The Dead Pool?

 

[Spud1k]

Regarding the OP, the technology is there now in the same way that the technology is already here that would allow a completely bug-free operating system that is compatible with every programme and piece of hardware a user could throw at it.

While we can make one car go around a test track with no problems, getting a city full of the blighters interacting with each other and the environment with absolutely no risk of running over the occasional 4-year-old? Not going to happen any time soon I feel.

 

[ponderingturtle]

Regarding the OP, the technology is there now in the same way that the technology is already here that would allow a completely bug-free operating system that is compatible with every programme and piece of hardware a user could throw at it.

While we can make one car go around a test track with no problems, getting a city full of the blighters interacting with each other and the environment with absolutely no risk of running over the occasional 4-year-old? Not going to happen any time soon I feel.

Which is likely why the army will be the first to use them. The risk of running over a 4 year old, vs putting people in the trucks and makeing them better targets to attack can pay off well for them.