FBI warns driverless cars could be used as 'lethal weapons'
Found on The Guardian on Thursday, 17 July 2014
In an unclassified but restricted report obtained by the Guardian under a public records request, the FBI predicts that autonomous cars “will have a high impact on transforming what both law enforcement and its adversaries can operationally do with a car.”
One nightmare scenario could be suspects shooting at pursuers from getaway cars that are driving themselves.
This presumably reflects fears that criminals might override safety features to ignore traffic lights and speed limits, or that terrorists might program explosive-packed cars to become self-driving bombs.
I'm not sure if the FBI knows, but there can be more than one in a car. So even in these old days, the driver can drive, and someone else can shoot. Who would have guessed: the driver can even ignore traffic lights. That sounds more like a strawman argument to cover the demand for controlling these cars by having remote access.