Everyone’s joking but this is a serious problem. Imagine you’re a billionaire and someone wants to assassinate you. The would-be assassin could figure out when you have a doctor’s appointment (or similar) and force a train to get stuck, blocking their route.
It would leave the billionaire stuck in traffic with no escape until the train(s) started moving again. An entire cavalcade of security personnel would also be stuck (if they had one).
Aside: It could also work for robbing something like a Brinks truck but let’s be honest: In this dystopian world it’s more likely that this vulnerability would be used to rob a food shipment 🙄
Everyone’s joking but this is a serious problem. Imagine you’re a billionaire and someone wants to assassinate you. The would-be assassin could figure out when you have a doctor’s appointment (or similar) and force a train to get stuck, blocking their route.
It would leave the billionaire stuck in traffic with no escape until the train(s) started moving again. An entire cavalcade of security personnel would also be stuck (if they had one).
Aside: It could also work for robbing something like a Brinks truck but let’s be honest: In this dystopian world it’s more likely that this vulnerability would be used to rob a food shipment 🙄
Imagine being so poor you’re driven to a doctor’s appointment rather that having them come to you.
Now that is the kind of story that would trigger a new attempt to fix this.
Billionaires take private jets or helicopters.
To a doctor appointment? Where are they gonna land? Not every hospital or building has a waiting helipad just ready for joe billionaire.
If the doctor is unimportant enough to have a helipad, the doctor can come to the billionaire.
Not the ones you can afford! Lol
The bigger hospitals most likely do have a helipad.
All 3 in my town have one and it’s only 160k population.