Just as car collectors prize the last models with manual transmissions, the introduction of mandatory surveillance tech will likely create a new class of "vintage" cars: those manufactured just before the mandate, valued for their lack of driver monitoring.
Mandated safety tech, like a pre-drive alcohol lockout, can create dangerous situations in emergencies. A person needing to escape a tsunami after a couple of drinks would be blocked by their car, demonstrating the system's inability to handle critical nuance.
The sheer scale of daily car trips in the U.S. (a quarter trillion annually) means a system with 99.9% accuracy would still produce tens of millions of false positives, infuriating sober drivers and undermining the system's credibility.
The popularity of AI content like the "Star Wars meets Pawn Stars" mashup depends on the unauthorized use of established intellectual property. This reliance on a "piracy world" dynamic suggests the near-term business case for AI video is stronger for B2B tools than standalone consumer entertainment.
The revelation that GPT-5.5's coding model has a rule to avoid mentioning "goblins" and "creatures" highlights a key challenge in AI development: advanced models exhibit strange emergent behaviors that must be manually constrained through specific, and sometimes bizarre, system prompts.