<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 10:10 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It occurred to me we had the potential to weaponized drones for at<br>
least several years.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Totally. Granted, airborne drones tend to be noisy and visible. If you want to use driverless cars to get around that, download some good-enough DIY self-driving-car software from one of the many efforts, rig it to a homebuilt scooter (probably electric, since that might be easiest to source parts for), pack the chassis with enough explosives to level a house, equip it with a fabricated license plate good enough that no cop will immediately pull it over, sit a mannequin on it (in full biking outfit so no one immediately sees it's not a person), and send it on its way late at night (little traffic, and target likely to be home and asleep). Have it get as close to its destination as the software will allow, wait 10-30 seconds after the GPS says it's close enough to target (to cover that last little distance from "close enough" to "actually there", while not allowing the target enough time to wake up, realize what's happening, and flee), then detonate.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I haven't heard of them being used to do bad things. Yet.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>For the most part, those with actual ability to put packages like this together, using state of the art equipment, also tend to be in positions where they gain far more from "playing nice" than from such acts of terrorism.<br><br>(Nuclear bombs have been around for so long that they are no longer state of the art, so even places like Iran and North Korea have the talent to put those together. But try finding anyone today who is both skilled enough to program a driverless car and willing to hang around in such a place, let alone pledge allegiance to such regimes.)<br></div></div></div></div>