Ritual Magic might "takes out" 'self-driving' cars soon
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 Bridle—known for coining the term, "New Aesthetic"—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-t...
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 Bridle—known for coining the term, "New Aesthetic"—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-t...
HR is still telling white heterosexual males that if they hit on any woman anywhere ever, whether she works in the same business or not, it is sexual harassment and they will never work again anywhere ever, but I notice that suddenly there are no more scandals about horny engineers hitting on the affirmative action hires. Have horny engineers stopped hitting on females hired to make the female engineerette quota? Meanwhile the black lives matter activist Kaepernick has lost his job for failing to stand for the national anthem, and is finding it strangely difficult to get another.
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