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Old 05-01-2013, 11:56 AM   #12
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So here's a piece of technology you wouldn't expect to totally disappear over the next 100 years: drones.

"It is the idea of being able to use a machine to kill other human beings from the comfort of a chair thousands of miles away, using a screen reminiscent of a video game..."

Not killer robots or AI:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22250664
Just drones used for surveillance, dropping bombs, and other targeted killings:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22320767
While operated from hundreds of miles away:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-22320275
Or maybe just used to spy on your neighbor:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22134898
Or protect wildlife from poachers:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-22075311

Now, I'm not suggesting that Car Wars would be a better game if you could sit at home in your simrig and drive the vehicle over yonder in the arena (yawn). But... Wouldn't every convoy deploy a drone a mile down the road to scout for ambushes?

Also not arguing it should be part of the core game, but it could be a sensible expansion. You've got to think with better battery/motor technology they'd only get *more* popular. Plus with cameras so small a pretty decent one fits in your 1/4" cell phone, I don't think a surveillance drone would even need any real payload capacity to be useful. Makes you wonder how small they could get. Probably small enough the cycle gang would never spot it. Hmm.

Edit: Rail network to fight graffiti with drones. Maybe good for patrolling oil pipelines in the distant future?

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