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Autonomous vehicles should be required to have a “kill zone”: a little square—away from any potential passengers—that cops can shoot to disable the vehicle entirely. If it were a human driving into a crime scene they wouldn’t hesitate, how come when it’s a driverless car all they can say is “oh, hey, stop… what should we do here?”


This is the most American solution to a problem that I have encountered for quite some time.


Not only an American solution, but also an American problem.


Someone doesn’t know how guns work, and it’s not the wombat.


This is a terrible terrible idea.


Sure it’s extreme, but I’d argue the “terrible terrible” idea is allowing the tyranny of beta software to run roughshod on the road, while the humans have to cope


It's called the tyres.




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