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Comment by jandrese | Hacker News Reader

The 5kph vehicle of terror!! Very slowly menacing the population!

It's like those bad monster movies where the people just stand their screaming while guy in the heavy and clunky rubber suit slowly waddles towards them.

Hacking something like a Tesla would probably be better. At least then you can maximize the V in your E=1/2mv^2 calculation.

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I need to find you some pictures of this. It happened, but with an angry human in Vermont. Flattened a bunch of police cars. Here are some [1] but I know there were more [2][3]. Trying to find the pictures of the cops laughing. Well, those pictures are gone, but you can see most of the story.

[1] - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/vermont-man-uses-tracto...

[2] - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2182958/Police-Vt-f...

[3] - https://motleynews.net/2012/08/03/lmao-vermont-man-upset-ove...

That is absolutely hilarious.

There's also the Killdozer with Marvin Heemeyer but it was a bulldozer effectively turned into a tank

I remember the videos of that. That would be a good example of high damage low risk to someone that takes control of a GPS/AI controlled bulldozer. And that was just one bulldozer. Imagine if every tractor, bulldozer, rock hauler, excavator were connected to a gaming engine and suddenly went full quake-3 arena at the same time.

Our neighbor would chase "trespassing" police off his property with a bucket loader (tractor with a bucket).

Combine harvesters can travel up to 40km/h when the harvesting mill is not operating.

Then they are just a slow truck. Hacking a truck would then be a more effective route.

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