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Imho this will only become more feasible as the costs/ease for such implementations keeps getting lower with further advances towards autonomous driving.

Very comparable to what happened with drones: Used to be that only very sophisticated state actors could field such weapons.

But with the rise of consumer-grade drones we started to see DIY implementations where consumer-grade drones were repurposed to drop explosive packages [0].

It's even become a thing for boats, back in 2018 three remote-controlled boats attacked a Saudi-flagged oil tanker in the Red Sea [1], the most recent attack like that just happened this year in July [2].

[0] https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2017/01/drones-isis/13...

[1] https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/swarm-three-remo...

[2] https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-yemen-security-saudi-boats...



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