This comment is targeted at preventing the use of driverless vehicles as weapons. The source of the comment is Orbit City Lab, a start up with pending patent applications involving such things as accessing transit in countries with different languages.
Orbit City Lab would like to see required sniffing equipment in driverless vehicles that will allow for the vehicle to in some way disengage if explosives are detected.
Maybe we should put that equipment on all streets and buses, as well as at airports and train stations. Seems to me that the Boston Marathon bombers, as just one example, and the Belgian airport bombers as a second, did pretty well without the need for fancy technology. That's not to say that Orbit is wrong, merely to point out that however we manage to limit access to one type of terrorist opportunity, they really require no special equipment or venues to manage to do horrible damage.
Indeed, for all that quite a few of these terrorist folks seem fine with blowing themselves up, I don't see them using cars, buses, or trucks for coming here or elsewhere to inflict damage. Why allow any kind of rental vehicle now without sniffing technology?
This comment is not about driverless vehicles, but about any vehicle - in the present or future - as a means for killing and otherwise inflicting evil upon the world.
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