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From: 2671@gmail.com
"Doc O'Leary" wrote in message
news:droleary-C759D0.11135918012014@news.eternal-september.org...
> In article , "2671" <2671@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> "Doc O'Leary" wrote in message
>> news:droleary-2D6CF8.12153417012014@news.eternal-september.org...
>> > In article ,
>> > Robert Bannister wrote:
>> >
>> >> I suppose we would all have to have locks and bars or maybe even
>> >> shutters on our windows to keep flying burglars out.
>> >
>> > It's definitely something you'd have to consider. The whole notion of
>> > doing a lot of flying around buildings may be a non-starter these days
>> > based on the fears of terrorism alone. You can even expect
>> > self-driving
>> > cars to be used for nefarious purposes.
>>
>> But it likely wouldnąt be that hard to have the car detect
>> that someone has loaded it with explosives and told it
>> to deliver it somewhere.
>
> I think you underestimate the difficulty of preventing that.
No, it is done already. No reason why it can't be done with self driving
cars too.
Most of
> the TSA security theater is predicated by the fact that threat detection
> is hard.
That is a different problem, working out who is likely to be a threat.
> And that's under highly controlled circumstances, too.
A self driving car is a highly controlled circumstance already
with what is in it.
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