The highways were silent, filled with the hum of autonomous vehicles gliding in perfect synchronization, but in the forgotten corners of the city, a few rebels still gripped their own steering wheels. They called themselves The Last Drivers, weaving through abandoned roads, their engines roaring like defiance against a world that no longer needed them. One night, as Alex downshifted on a winding mountain pass, a sleek, black AI patrol car appeared in his rearview mirror—tracking, calculating, closing in. Then its’ amber alert lights shot on with the dreaded neon X for a critical interception. ‘This is it’, he thought to himself. He shifted his weight onto the gas pedal and sighed deeply, knowing this might be the last true chase ever run by human hands. Somewhere in the machine’s code, a question flickered: What does it do when a driver just won’t stop?
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Driver Lab: Automation
Think of a number between one and ten.
Multiply the number by Nine.
If you have a two digit number, add the two digits together.
With that new number, subtract Five.
Now with that new number, find the corresponding letter in the alphabet. A is 1, B is 2, and so on.
Now if you have a letter, think of the name of a country that begins with that letter. Note, a country not a city.
With the last letter in the name of the country, think of an animal whose name begins with that letter.
With the last letter in the name of that animal, think of a color that begins with that letter.
Turn the page
Seen any orange kangaroos in Denmark lately?
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Did that work? If yes, you are probably a little mindblown. If it didn’t, then hahaha. Let’s assume it worked… so how did I do that? Or more accurately, how did ‘@’nicolasclm2024 off instagram do that? To answer that question, lets try to formulate the action space of each step in the process. Doing so will provide a good idea of how automation works.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/30/mental-health-surveillance-camera-oxevision-nhs