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Self-driving cars, such as Google’s experimental vehicles, will be available to buyers in coming years, but the FBI is not particularly thrilled about their arrival, The Guardian has learned from a restricted report obtained under a public records requests. The FBI says that criminals may use this “game-changing” technology to perform various other activities while the car drives itself, in order to escape police and/or harm others. The FBI said that autonomous cars “will have a high impact on transforming what both law enforcement and its adversaries can operationally do with a car.” The agency envisions smart criminals who would be able to customize the software found onboard of such smart cars to evade chasers by bypassing rules of the road. Having