Author Anton Wahlman is way off base here. You don’t need fully autonomous driverless cars to pilot a truck full of explosives to a target. You can do it with simple radio remote control and video cameras. Converting a truck to remote control is far easier than developing a fully autonomous vehicle.
Even that is unnecessary because all you need to do is recruit suicide bombers. There were 19 Saudis willing to fly those airplanes on their kamikaze missions on 9/11. I’m sure there are many more where those 19 came from.
What you said.
Let’s also recall Timothy McVeigh. I don’t recall all details, but didn’t he park a truck full of explosives at that federal building in Oklahoma City? I think he drove it in and parked it at the target?
And as you note, a suicide bomber driving a truck on a suicide mission is an ongoing danger.