I remember Arnold Schwarzenegger having a fight with a self-driving car in <i>Total Recall</i>. Further back we have <i>2001</i> and the entire canon of Asimov&#x27;s three laws stories of computerized morality and how it might be exploited or debugged. And the <i>Paranoia</i> RPG.<p>However, in the successful real semi-automated totalitarianism of China, the secret to keeping the system running is the avoidance of overt confrontations like this. In the future, if your self-driving car doesn&#x27;t want you to go somewhere, it&#x27;ll just refuse to understand the address. Or take you somewhere unrelated. Or use whatever the standard euphemism for &quot;that&#x27;s not allowed, but we&#x27;re not allowed to say it&#x27;s not allowed&quot; that polite people use.