Will Robot Car Bombs Replace Suicide Car-Bombers?

Don’t Fear The Robot Car Bomb -- Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists

Within the next few years, autonomous vehicles—alias robot cars—could be weaponized, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) fears. In a recently disclosed report, FBI experts wrote that they believe that robot cars would be “game changing” for law enforcement. The self-driving machines could be professional getaway drivers, to name one possibility. Given the pace of developments on autonomous cars, this doesn’t seem implausible.

But what about robotic car bombers? If car bombs no longer require sacrificing the driver’s life, then criminals and terrorists might be more likely to use them. The two-page FBI report doesn’t mention this idea directly, but this scenario has caused much public anxiety anyway—perhaps reasonably so. Car bombs are visceral icons of terrorism in modern times, from The Troubles of Northern Ireland to regional conflicts in the Middle East and Asia.

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My Comment: I predict that an airborne drone will be used as a means to deliver the first significant remote controlled terror attack before a remote controlled car is utilized. Having said that .... a remote controlled car bomb will still be the preferred choice because it can wreck havoc on larger scale due to the payload that it can carry .... a payload that would be far greater than what an airborne drone can possibly carry.