We need these on our Southern border

At first look this sounds great until you stop and think about how many ways it could be defeated with thermal blocking clothing and decoys. Nor would you want a battle triggered by a deer grazing across it\'s field of view. A more valuable weapon would be a semi-autonomous robot controlled gun that was also capable of instantaneously returning fire based on the enemy\'s muzzle flash and sound location. I have been puzzled that something like this hasn\'t become standard equipment by now. The gun mentioned in the article could also have the undesirable effect of targeting civilians which would severely limit its utility. Being able to instantaneously return fire would be far more useful. As a matter of fact I have been puzzled that we haven\'t developed remote controlled patrol vehicles like those now being used in the air.

Fire first, and not ask questions. It\'s not in its programming.

There\'s another (southern) border that comes to mind where this could be used with a non lethal weapon system.

As is far too common on Gizmag, the hype in this story far exceeds the facts.
The first half is all about the DMZ, then we\'re told how this gun could be used there, and finally, we\'re told that gizmag really doesn\'t know anything about the gun\'s deployment. Gizmag had created the story from thin air.

Welsarth, Bruce spot on my thoughts exactly though non lethal, naww

Another \"popular mechanics\" wank ourselves over ways to kill other people - and thus bolster the banks investment in war profiteering.....

@Bob: You write \"Nor would you want a battle triggered by a deer grazing across it\'s field of view\"
I have it on good authority that these turrets have incorporated the infamous Bunker Hill algorithm which holds fire until the camera is able to detect the whites of their eyes.
Since deer have no whites,, problem solved!

Sweet! The terminators have arrived. Hook them up to goog-skynet, put them on segways and start executing "plan B".

But before they can build any more... THEY MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS