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

[mirimir at riseup.net (Mirimir)]

On 03/20/2017 04:53 PM, Razer wrote:
> Not soon enough.

That is pretty funny. But humans are vulnerable too. The rope trick.
Moving/reversing one-way and do-not-enter signs. Tricking other drivers
to exceed speed limits, and then following them.

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