Just had the weirdest thought. 

"Tohru" (tohrurokuno) 09/12/2015 at 15:30 • Filed to: None

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A long time ago, Torch proclaimed from Mount Beetle that anthropomorphized cars should have the eyes in the headlights, and to put them in the windshield is heresy. I realized something, though. If people still drive cars, then eyes in the headlights is logical - still gotta be able to see out of the windshield. But if people don’t exist, then it’s natural for the eyes to be in the windshield. It also allows the passenger compartment to be brain space, so the cars are smart enough to exist and replicate on their own and to hunt down and crush any remaining pockets of human resistance.

BJ > Tohru 09/12/2015 at 15:34

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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Tohru 09/12/2015 at 15:35

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Somehow, I don’t believe the passenger compartment is actually cerebral. I think it’s more likely a size/puffing up type thing for various uses including mating, and to protect the precious drivetrain from falling limbs and timbers in ancient jungle garages. I think there’s some kind of distributed intelligence going on, with most thinking going on via nerve clusters.

Tohru > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/12/2015 at 15:43

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You think instead of a brain, they’re just running a really evolved CAN-BUS? you’d think Doc could just hook up an OBD-4 scanner to figure out what’s wrong instead of giving visual inspections.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Tohru 09/12/2015 at 15:47

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I’m thinking the individual electrical components (coil, voltage regulator, etc.) have evolved neurone function and communicate via the main wiring harness. HF signalling. CAN-BUS based diagnosis is really no substitute for a full-car magnetic imaging in that case.