Whether it’s an example of predictive programming or prescience, the old Rush song about the guy who makes a banzai run in his illegalized old car seems to have nailed our elaborating reality = back when it seemed like science fiction.Especially the part about the alloy air cars that chased the Red Barchetta. Something like them is being developed by Kia – and probably not just Kia.

The PV5 is a real alloy air car.

It is an AI-driven “patrol car” that has a “situational awareness system powered by artificial intelligence” with “high-resolution cameras” that are capable of searching for “specific visual cues tied to keywords. If “red shirt” is entered as a search term, the AI cameras “can identify clothing colors or bag shapes in real time,” to identify and locate the red-shirt-wearing target. “This capability is expected to help improve the speed and efficiency of locating missing persons or suspects.”

Who can be tracked down via drones sicced on them by the PV5.

Just like in that old song. The Red Barchetta is pursued by what amount to the same thing. Back then, “drone” was not a word in common currency. So alloy air car it was.

I spin around with shrieking tires, to run the deadly race  . . .Go screaming through the valley as another joins the chase.

The old saying used to be that you can’t outrun Motorola – meaning, police radio. How about police – government – drones?

Kia’s alloy air car can “analyze human postures and movement patterns to identify people who may have collapsed or detect individuals carrying objects such as knives, clubs or guns, and issue alerts. Additionally, a crowd-monitoring function will send alerts in advance if the number of people in a specific area exceeds preset thresholds.”

Italics added. You can almost hear the AI voice. Citizens! This protest is not authorized! Disperse and return to your cubicles! If they do not, the drones can be deployed. No mention of sonic disrupters and other methods of crowd dispersion but they are probably working on that. Or just haven’t mentioned that – yet.

It is as usual all being framed in a “public safety” and “for our own good” kind of way.

Junsoo Do, who is the head of something called the Future Security Police Bureau at the Korean National Police Agency (more about that in a moment) says the Kia alloy air car “marks an important step toward a more advanced patrol vehicle that is intended to improve both on-site response and public safety.” Also that it is “expected to help with early emergency detection, broader patrol coverage and more efficient use of police resources.” The KNPA even has a Judge Dredd-style golden eagle logo. 

“Efficient” being a working synonym for more relentless and unavoidable. Now, that would be ok if we were talking about apprehending actual criminals. The thing is, the majority of what the police do doesn’t involve criminals – unless you equate “criminal” with law-breaking. There is a distinction there and it used to be considered important. Probably because it was generally understood that the great majority of people aren’t criminals, in the sense that the great majority never commit acts of violence, such as murder, rape, theft, etc. The problem is this definition of criminal leaves police with little to do. It also leaves their employer – the government – with less power to pester and interfere with people who aren’t criminals. That is why so many laws have been passed creating offenses that involve no criminality. It serves to make “criminals” – at least potentially – out of everyone.

Remember when it was a “crime” to go for a walk in public without a for-appearances-only mask over your face? To show you were playing along with the hysteria (and thereby helping to maintain it)? Kia’s alloy air car would have been very “efficient” at dealing with “COVID” kabuki refusers. It will be very “efficient” at dealing with anyone who transgresses the Motor Law – per Red Barchetta. That is to say, anyhow who dares to drive an unsanctioned, disconnected car outside the lanes.

At the one-lane bridge I leave the giants stranded
At the riverside
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle
At the fireside…

The difficulty for us will be escaping the actual alloy air cars.

Oh, and how about that national police business? In Korea, they have this; i.e., a centralized police force that enforces every law emitted by the national government. We in America do not have a national police force – yet. There are still local sheriffs and county cops and that helps diffuse the Authority of the government a little bit.

But Trump appears to be laying the foundations for a national police force, via ICE – which already operates far away from the border. In fact, it operates everywhere it wants to. Add REAL ID and biometric passports and they may not even need alloy air cars to prevent any Red Barchetta’ing.

It’s a good day, I think, to take the Trans-Am out for a drive.

Before I;mnot allowed to do that anymore.

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