[pierrelf]

Wonder what car chases will look like in a couple years, car just safely comes to a stop and unlocks doors?

[lettergram]

More like, you get in your car for work. Facial recognition has mistaken you for someone shop lifting at a cashless, humanness convenient store (where you walk out and are charged).

So your car locks you in and drives you to the nearest police station. You pull up and a robot comes to the window, doors unlock, it tells you to step out with your hands up.

A drone then pops out and circles you three times, scanning for weapons using x-rays if some kind.

After that the robot tells you to follow and you walk into the police station.

In the police station, the robot brings you to a room. You sit. Robot leaves and door locks behind. Then a screen pops up out of the table and you see a remote meeting with a corrections officer…

[dangus]

The hilarious part about this is that even a sci-fi scenario can’t even imagine walkable or transit-oriented city development. I guess even in the automated robot future we’re still using cars for some reason.

You’d think that our robot AI overlords would calculate how wasteful personal vehicle infrastructure is and how un-optimized they are for human health and well-being, lowering the efficiency of the enslaved populace, and make corrections.

[mhb]

There must be a law about how long it takes in a discussion about any aspect of cars before light rail or walkable cities is mentioned.

[dangus]

Probably because it’s an issue that’s reaching a boiling point among those in the know.

The present state of North American city design explains so much about what is wrong with North America.

Health and obesity, housing costs, pollution and emissions, isolation versus community, human safety and premature injury/death…the list goes on. It’s a politically deep topic.

[onethought]

I mean if they can lock you in your car and identify you. Do they need to take you to the station? Car could just enter “jail mode”.

[csours]

That has happened already in some cases. The cops just have to know the right number to call.

[hedora]

GM's OnStar system has billed this as a feature for about 20 years. The police can get the location of your car and screw with the drivetrain.

Somehow, they have enough other severe problems that this is toward the bottom of my top ten list of reasons not to buy GM products.