2017 BMW Film The Escape - I know, I'm a bit late to the commenting party. But here's a thought: what if this short would be shot in the somewhat near future when all cars are supposed to be autonomous?
Sure, Clive Owen would be left jobless, but he could handle a dropped contract, that's not the problem. But who would save Dakota Fanning, or, better asked, how?
Alas, we wouldn't get to enjoy any conflicts on the way, since there would be no rescue operation.
The FBI's self-driving fortresses would just come, the feds would step out of them, relaxed after having read the govt newspaper while the AI was doing all the driving. They would grab the damn clone and treat her a life even worse than the one she already had. And that would be a lame scenario.
But, you see, people wouldn't work like that. Because they're not machines, they would hack the getaway vehicles, Hummers and all. And then the Teslas, which would still do the best quarter mile times on the planet, could run away with the confused Dakota.
Heck, Tesla's new Autopilot might even be able to dodge that helicopter bullets without taking down the freaking thing. Helicopters are beautiful pieces of machinery, why not ruin a robot of some other sci-fi thing from such a futuristic scenario instead, if we must break something?
So yes, you got the picture - this would be a short sponsored by Tesla Motors. Elon Musk would supervise the entire operation, airing a commercial based on this Eartly happening during Mars' version of the Super Bowl - what? The gravitation is different, everything's different on Mars, you should see the balls they have in the game!
See? That would be an odd movie. And other bad things await a potential (some would say upcoming) all-autonomous driving planet Earth. Or Mars, for that matter.
If our vehicles will lead themselves, where's the freedom in driving? This is not some silly conspiracy rant (there's a time for everything and now is not that time), but, really now, wouldn't it devoid us of the freedom of choice in a way?
How will we sneak up in between cars at drive-through and pick up the order we never paid for? Who will do the burnouts?
I have to admit there are a few holes in my depiction of a boringly efficient world. For one thing, some of the actors in the BMW Tesla short movie would be too old to play their current roles.
Heck, my ribs hurt just by thinking about landing onto a BMW 5 Series from a helicopter and I'm not even 35 yet.
But this is 2016 and, fortunately, we can still get out there on the road and do our thing. So let's keep things this way, shall we? The Bimmers are nice, the girl gets away and I get to drive. Nobody's trapped by the government (LOL).
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