Consider what a vehicle gaining awareness might be. Unlike a Boomer AI developing awareness or something more or less human in nature, a car has totally alien concepts of what it might want to do with itself. Especially since a car, by definition, fulfills its purpose when it's carrying people. I doubt a car which evolved awareness without a human perspective would be fighting crime, for instance. KITT, by contrast, was a human-programmed AI which accepted human values. An "awakened" car might be a totally different animal entirely.
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.