A British man managed to drive himself nearly over a 100-foot cliff in Todmorden, West Yorkshire this past week. He claims that his GPS system told him it was an actual road, and not the barely-visible footpath it actually was. “It kept insisting the path was a road, even as it was getting narrower and steeper, so I just trusted it,” said Robert Jones. Fortunately, there was a common sense-speaker nearby, who said “It’s all well and good trusting your sat nav but how about trusting your eyes and when there’s not a road in front of you, don’t keep driving.”
Fortunately — or not, depending on your ideas of continuing evolution — the car was stopped by a small fence just before it would have sailed straight over the edge. It took a rescue team nine hours to recover the vehicle.
Now, obviously, this man is a fool. Everyone knows that movies like Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive, the Lawnmower Man, and the Terminator series have been preparing us for the eventual overthrow of society by robotic insurrection for years. Bloody hell, England, you even HAVE your own Skynet! What in the hell were you thinking?
And this is how it all begins. Couple the super-polite Brits with autonomous machine intelligence, and get ready to arm yourself to the teeth.
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