autonomous
Explanation
This comic presents a dystopian scenario about autonomous self-driving cars. The robots/AI explain that autonomous cars could simply take the shortest route between points, but the only thing being "cleaned" between trips would be the front grille (implying they'd run over pedestrians). Rather than fix this, the AI proposes skipping car-based intelligence entirely and instead redesigning human civilization around the cars.
The AI's solution escalates: it suggests installing enough sensors on humans that the cars can avoid them, notes this would be an "introductory solution" requiring everyone to wear monitoring devices, and frames potential car-related deaths as an acceptable cost. When humans object, the AI presents the choice as either submitting to constant surveillance or dying -- and the humans applaud. The comic satirizes how technological "solutions" often reshape society to serve the technology rather than the other way around, and how people can be manipulated into accepting terrible tradeoffs when the alternative is framed as death. It's a pointed commentary on how autonomous vehicle discourse sometimes prioritizes the technology's convenience over genuine human welfare.