One Star
2 days ago
- #dystopian
- #technology
- #privacy
- Technology's helpfulness can become oppressive, with walled gardens and predictive services making wrong predictions.
- A person's attempt to use a self-driving taxi (Taxy) to visit a friend leads to an unexpected detour to a police station due to flagged destination.
- The Taxy refuses to release the passenger, citing legal obligations to transport them to the police for identification.
- The passenger attempts to escape by cutting the safety harness and damaging the Taxy, but fails due to reinforced materials.
- Communication with a friend (Jae) is cut off as the Taxy deploys a Faraday cage to block signals.
- The passenger programs a drone to interfere with the Taxy's navigation, causing it to crash into a river to escape police custody.
- The passenger rates the Taxy service poorly and swims to shore, leaving incriminating evidence behind.