On Sunday, December 8, 2013 3:59:57 AM UTC-7, Ray Swinfield wrote:
Accidents and lawsuits would definitely give these big businesses a

problem. But big business usually finds ways to cope and get its

way if there is enough profit. E g air liner crashes and the cost of

safety measures versus the often cheaper move of paying the

litigation or its insurance costs.

IMHO what might well kill it off is the profit motive itself in other

parts of the economy. I think there would be enough people who

would hijack and steal these drones and it would be very difficult to

prevent or catch them. The scenario now gets horrific. The drones

would become heavily armed and fight off intruders. So we dont

need Skynet to nuke us into near oblivion - the oblivious

consumers would hardly notice terminators evolving and new

forms of gang war and anti drone vigilantes becoming the norm

and topics of documentaries and movies.

Bring back Marvin the Paranoid Android.

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