We may never fully understand why electric car kidnapped its owner as they have up to 100 MILLION lines of software code, says expert – but insists misbehaving vehicles are ‘very rare’
BUT: What the idiots have not observed is “WHERE WAS THE KILL SWITCH” ???
There was no way for the driver to turn off the car… in a petrol car with a manual gearbox you could shift it into neutral and the engine would be disengaged, or turn off the ignition switch. BUT! electric vehicles have no gearbox and so wheels are always connected to the motor which is always connected to power, which seems to me an obvious oversight in the design, which is probably not surprising due to all the diversity hires that occur nowadays. And all the modern students leaving university thinking knowing the correct sexual pronoun is most important thing. They would probably fit some extra logic to the code so that the car quizzes you on correct pronouns before it allows the software off switch (which is not an off switch at all) to be switched.
So EV’s obviously need a kill switch, my own choice would be something physical in the main power line out from the battery so all circuits get disconnected.
I personally think it will just be left as “we may never fully understand it” and they just move on down this path of WTF after WTF after WTF etc. That works OK for them eh! (Well I have read a few good 2000AD stories on automated stuff and they covered most of the pitfalls in those stories… like for example a house A.I. that falls in love with you, gets jealous and refuses to let you out of the house ever again… would be a nice poetic justice story for “them” to go through I reckon… if only!)
On further reflection that 2000AD (the galaxy’s greatest comic) story is a bit similar to modern cars (and obviously 2000AD did a story that covers kidnapped by an ai car as well) they have electric windows with no manual opening. Not sure about central locking problems on modern cars… (they probably are lock-you-in type failure mode), on old manual cars, mechanically the inside door open lever would pop the lock so the lock did not override ability to open the door from the inside…. and those problems exist on modern petrol cars, not solely an ev problem.
And on a tangent, on an HS2 type theme, classic minor subplot in 2000AD story, I think it was ABC Warriors, “The Greatest Robot In the Universe” at least, it would have been, until the accountants got control of the budget LOL And they managed to persuade it those attacking them were the accountants I think and it was still a kick-ass robot LOL