So long as they're more like human-piloted mechs, there are slightly fewer nightmare scenarios involving mad engineers and hackers.
I would argue driverless cars are far more dangerous in that regard, if only because you are likely to have more of them and they are already in major population centers.
I agree, especially because the security on commercial hardware tends to be worse than the security on military hardware.
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