[jdmoreira]

Not with current tech but let’s say 5 years from now can’t a country or even a terrorist organization deploy hundreds of autonomous drones with charging stations that will effectively shoot everyone on sight? It’s like a school massacre but at a city scale or worse. Sure eventually everyone will go inside or underground but there is still incredible damage to be made in the meanwhile. You can equip these with heat vision and they will even hunt you at night. This is also incredible tech for hunting fugitives. In the US the population has enough handguns that they can probably fight these off to some extent but in Europe it would be impossible.

[barbazoo]

They'd have to get their hands on "hundreds of autonomous drones" and deploy them on site. Seems unlikely for any of the current terrorist organisations.

[jdmoreira]

really? It’s not like this would cost more than 5K usd each. It doesn’t have to be military grade this is not much more than a DJI drone with better firmware and a micro railgun

[barbazoo]

sure, looking at how they usually conduct business though, it seems unlikely that would happen. but whatever, it could theoretically happen, what do I know.