The New Orleans incident is being investigated as an act of terrorism, reflecting the alarming trend of vehicle-based attacks against crowds that are increasingly common.
Vehicle ramming has transformed ordinary vehicles into tools for violence with minimal training required, making it easier for individuals to instill fear in urban environments.
As noted in the 2019 study by Vincent Miller and Keith Hayward, vehicle ramming attacks allow marginal actors to easily target urban centers and cause widespread terror.
Assailants can utilize vehicles to execute attacks, making them commonplace tools in the arsenal of extremist organizations and radicalized individuals, as per FBI insights.
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