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Is it really easier to hijack a self driving truck than a manned one? You can just point a gun at the driver. And there probably aren't any cameras or sensors on the manned truck.

Whenever a new technology comes along, people come up with tons of ways it could be abused and so won't work. I mean look at all the speculation around drones the past few years. The reality is most of our existing technology can be abused by creative people just the same way. The only reason society doesn't fall apart is because criminals happen to be fairly rare.



> You can just point a gun at the driver.

Yeah but now you're looking at 20-30 years for armed robbery instead of being just the good ol' boys never meanin' no harm, just makin' their way the only way they know, that's just a little bit more than the law will allow.


the good ol' boys never meanin' no harm, just makin' their way the only way they know, that's just a little bit more than the law will allow.

The current political climate would never allow a car painted like that!


The General Lee? I see a few with that paint job every so often.


...on television.


You are still looking at years in prison for theft. I'm not sure if 20 years in prison is really that much more of a deterrent than 5 years.


It's been 30 years since I was in High School and I still remember being taught back then that studies showed that length of prison sentence didn't have a noticeable deterrent effect.

Most crimes are committed by people who feel they have nothing to lose.


Laws aren't static.

If that happens often then we'll amend the law to increase punishment for this particular crime, just like we made a single act of copyright infringement worth up to $150k.


Or they could amend the law to fire you out of a cannon into the sun! What will that dastardly congress do next.


It doesn't even require anything clever. Just put your car in front of the truck and it stops on the road.


Pointing a gun at a person is a different crime than computer hacking.




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