Whoum. Whoum. Whoum. Whoum. The car tugged left and right as each wheel’s electric motor had its firmware sequentially reprogrammed over their shared CAN bus, safeties unlocked, and full amperage dumped into it by a software-defined battery decomposing under suicide chemistry.
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Cortana hurtled the autonomous car down an urban chute, suspension taking a staccato punishment through each intersection, their wet asphalt path lit green by traffic management LEDs she controlled, as blood began to penetrate the passenger seat and short its occupancy sensor.
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Around the world, datacenters spooled up, cooling fans screaming region by region under full theoretical load, as machine cognition and image recognition tasks shouldered the burden of exfiltrating all metropolitan transportation and surveillance datasets to optimize pathfinding.
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Under constant acceleration, the car’s four rubber contact patches pitched and atomized water from the soaked road, displaced air degenerating into violently buffeting turbulence as speed increased beyond anything designed. This machine couldn’t last. But it didn’t need to.
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The rogue Prius was now going almost 40 mph
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