ISIS technicians are worki-ng to develop a Google-style driverless car th-at could navigate itself into a crowded area before detonating an explosive device, a Nato security expert has warned.
ISIS technicians are worki-ng to develop a Google-style driverless car th-at could navigate itself into a crowded area before detonating an explosive device, a Nato security expert has warned.
ISIS’ research and development departm-ent in the terror gro-up’s de facto Syrian capital, Raqqa, is beli-eved to be producing the vehicles at the same time as Google attempts to perfect the same technology.
If successful, the in-vention could prove to be a major headache for security services in Britain and throu-ghout Europe and North America, where self-driving cars are expected to become commonplace, Daily Express reported.
Thousands of driverless cars are expected to be on Britain’s roa-ds within the next few years and there is a very real prospect jih-adis could prey on the new technology to lau-nch attacks in the UK.
Jamie Shea, Nato’s deputy assistant secretary-general for em-erging security thr-eats, said the Islamic extremists were using their bomb making fa-ctory in Raqqa to deve-lop the technology.
He said ISIS was using its “technical expertise” to “play around” with driverless cars in a “worrying” development.
Mr Shea said: “We are focusing very mu-ch on...Raqqa at the moment, where ISIL has its bomb-making factory. It is not just Google that is producing the autonomous car, ISIS is also trying to do the same.”
The technology wou-ld remove the need for suicide bombers and could help the group cope with the dramatic drop in its numbers, which has seen its fighting force cut almost in half.
