Ritual Magic might "takes out" 'self-driving' cars soon

[g2s at riseup.net (Razer)]

Not soon enough.

> Is it a silly prank, a Pagan ritual, or a genius discovery about the
> next era of mass transit? In a picture posted to Flickr by artist
> James Bridleâ??known for coining the term, "New Aesthetic"â??a car is
> sitting in the middle of a parking lot has been surrounded by a magic
> salt circle. In the language of road markings, the dotted white lines
> on the outside say, "Come On In," but the solid white line on the
> inside says, "Do Not Cross." To the car's built-in cameras, these are
> indomitable laws of magic: Petrificus Totalus for autonomous automobiles.
>
> Captioned simply, "Autonomous Trap 001," the scene evokes a world of
> narratives involving the much-hyped technology of self-driving cars.
> It could be mischievous hackers disrupting a friend's self-driving
> ride home; the police seizing a dissident's getaway vehicle; highway
> robbers trapping their prey; witches exorcizing a demon from their
> hatchback.


https://creators.vice.com/en_us/article/meet-the-artist-using-ritual-magic-to-trap-self-driving-cars