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The Johnny Cabs in Total Recall spring to mind. The Will Smith I, Robot had shifting between auto and self driving modes as a plot point too if I remember righ
by PJDK 8y ago
The Johnny Cabs in Total Recall spring to mind.
The Will Smith I, Robot had shifting between auto and self driving modes as a plot point too if I remember rightly.
It feels like there are some good stories to tell around them too. I'm personally jealous of the generation of students who will get to wake up with a hangover in a car half way across the country, heading towards somewhere that seemed like a great idea the night before.
- js2 8y agoThat’s right, I had forgotten. Interesting that two PkD-based movies (total recall and minority report pointed out in a sibling comment) have self-driving cars. It’s been too long since I’ve read the stories to remember if that was the case in the books or not.
- Finnucane 8y agoPKD stories and novels frequently feature autonomous or semi-autonomous machines. Joe Chip, in Ubik, is refused service by his apartment door, and later, an autonomous diner service, because he is broke. Also, Dick would use the early '90s as 'the future' pretty frequently.
- vidarh 8y agoIt makes sense given that straddling the line between what is real and what is fake is perhaps the most persistent theme in his works, and this persistent chipping away at the agency of humans by robots by bureaucratic enforcement of rules is also all over his works. Of course then with the regular nagging doubt about who are the humans and who are the robots.
- iscrewyou 8y agoI think Minority Report got that self driving cars right. They just don’t look as pretty as I thought they would.
- evilduck 8y agoDemolition Man had cars that were primarily self driving too.
- kolinko 8y agoI recently rewatched Demolition Man, and it got a surprising amount of things right.