Driverless cars may one day be able to save lives by cutting down on accidents. But the technology also has the potential to be used to create deadly weapons.
At least, those are some of the findings in an FBI report obtained by The Guardian via a public-records request. The report, created by the Strategic Issues Group within the FBI’s Directorate of Intelligence, says the technology “will also open up greater possibilities for dual-use applications and ways for a car to be more of a potential lethal weapon than it is today.”
Further, the report says “bad actors will be able to conduct tasks that require use of both hands or taking one’s eyes off the road which would be impossible today.”
The Guardian’s story, published Wednesday, imagines nightmare scenarios such as tailed suspects being better able to shoot at police, and terrorists potentially packing explosives into a self-driving car aimed at a specific destination.
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