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Robot police car would bring ‘Terminator’ one step closer to reality

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Here’s an “innovation” we hope will remain a design concept: the Scarab Chase Assistant is an electric semi-autonomous police vehicle. When a speeder zips by, a cop electronically tags that car with radar, and then sends the Scarab scurrying after it. What does this little RoboCop do when it catches up to the speeder?

Well, it doesn’t bark out, “Put down your weapon. You have 20 seconds to comply.” When this technology first rolls out, it will merely attempt to peacefully convince suspects to pull over to the side of the road the way a normal cop car would.

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