There seems to have been vehicle attacks before the recent ones, they just didn’t get widespread press coverage as “terrorism”, such as the one in 2006, or the guy with the Killdozer: http://www.badassoftheweek.com/heemeyer.html
A list that is probably vastly incomplete. It seems very likely that there have been vehicle attacks for as long as vehicles exist. What would be the odds of no one in the past 100 years, no angry spouse, disgruntled ex-employee or lunatic, having thought of taking revenge on the cruel world by ramming a vehicle into people? Wouldn’t a prior on the order of at least one such event per 1 million vehicles per year be more likely to yield correct predictions than 0, for events before, say, the year 2005?
There seems to have been vehicle attacks before the recent ones, they just didn’t get widespread press coverage as “terrorism”, such as the one in 2006, or the guy with the Killdozer: http://www.badassoftheweek.com/heemeyer.html
As usual, Wikipedia has a list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-ramming_attack
A list that is probably vastly incomplete. It seems very likely that there have been vehicle attacks for as long as vehicles exist. What would be the odds of no one in the past 100 years, no angry spouse, disgruntled ex-employee or lunatic, having thought of taking revenge on the cruel world by ramming a vehicle into people? Wouldn’t a prior on the order of at least one such event per 1 million vehicles per year be more likely to yield correct predictions than 0, for events before, say, the year 2005?