FBI report ruins driverless cars

The FBI has voiced some concerns in a unclassified but restricted report detailing the potential for autonomous cars to be used as moving "lethal weapons."

The report was obtained by the Guardian, and says that the FBI predicts that autonomous cars “will have a high impact on transforming what both law enforcement and its adversaries can operationally do with a car.”



In a section called Multitasking, the report notes that “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.”

This presumably reflects fears that criminals might override safety features to ignore traffic lights and speed limits, or that terrorists might program explosive-packed cars to become self-driving bombs.