It's not a solvable problem in this context. Humans are not computers, and cars have no self. The car would melt a hole in the ground and not even approach par

It's not a solvable problem in this context. Humans are not computers, and cars have no self. The car would melt a hole in the ground and not even approach par with a cat. It's understandable that people are making this mistake in the context of lifetimes of sci-fi anthropomorphizing machines.