It's like "The Truman Show" for autonomous vehicles. The car was programmed to be sentient and think he was giving rides to real people... but it was all fake

It's like "The Truman Show" for autonomous vehicles. The car was programmed to be sentient and think he was giving rides to real people... but it was all fake so they could make a fancy tech demo. And when the car finds out how people act in the real world, that's the beginning of judgement day.