My jokey conspiracy theory is that humanity has had full self driving cars since the late 80s. "They" just let you think that you're really driving your car, b

My jokey conspiracy theory is that humanity has had full self driving cars since the late 80s. "They" just let you think that you're really driving your car, but every move is actually made by the AI. It only diverges from your input when your input would have otherwise caused a crash. Meanwhile, you're so distracted by the narrowly avoided car crash that you don't notice that an AI took over. However, you can't save everyone because then people would get suspicious. So "They" calculate social scores for everyone and people with a sufficiently low score don't get saved when they mess up. The real punchline here, though, is exactly what you say: > If you can't stop paying attention, what's the point? Why would anyone actually want a full self driving car that you have to pay attention to all the time outside of a shadowy cabal from a half-baked conspiracy theory? I'm really not sure.