Don't Drive My Car
Gabor On Drums
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Don't Drive My Car
2024
If you look at the roads during rush hour, you will see thousands of metal boxes, usually carrying just one person. In traffic jams, the battery in view, or with a throbbing pulse on the fuel gauge. A waste of space. A waste of time.
For some time now, there has been a new technical challenge that should make it possible to further reduce the number 1. It should therefore be possible for vehicles to even travel without a driver – yes, completely empty. Welcome to the world of autonomous driving, a real technological revolution. This opens up the possibility of people being able to drive without a licence. That drunk people can legally sit behind the wheel because there is no longer a ‘human’ at the wheel. Is that still level 5 or already level 6?
The author, electrical engineer and AI expert, explains the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead from different perspectives and timelines.
(Introduction to my book „Don’t Drive My Car“)
Ah ah ah ah, don’t drive my car
I’m just a boy, my favorite toy
And I’m telling you avatar
Don’t push me too far
I’m telling you straight, don’t drive my car
Ah ah ah ah, don’t drive my car
Stay where you are, stay where you are
“cause I’m telling you avatar
Now don’t you push me too far
I’m telling you straight, don’t drive my car
And I’m telling you avatar
Now don’t you push me too far
I’m telling you straight, don’t drive my car
And I’m telling you avatar
Now don’t you push me too far
I’m telling you straight, don’t drive my car
I have finished customising the text and changed it slightly. I have only replaced the word ‘woman’ with ‘avatar’. It fits the book better this way, and the rhyme is also much more elegant. By the way, the original text was very misogynistic. My AI assistent, *gaborGPT* told to me:
‚Don’t you think the text has become quite anti-AI now?’
‘Are you saying that AI nodes and avatars are now striving for equality?’
‘But of course. Now the text sounds like an anthem against autonomous driving.’
‘All right then. Then tell us something about this song.’
‘‘Don’t drive my car’ was written by Status Quo and was first released in 1980 as a double single together with the song ‘Lies’. It was also released on the album ‘Just supposin’. Written by Andy Bown and Rick Parfitt. By the way, there is an older song called ‘Drive my car’. It’s by the Beatles and dates from 1965.’
‘And what about the film ‘Drive my car’?’
‘That’s a completely different story. Drive My Car (Japanese: Doraibu mai kā) is a Japanese feature film by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi from 2021, which won the Golden Globe Award for ‘Best Foreign Language Film’. In the same year, Drive My Car won the Oscar for ‘Best International Film’ and was nominated in three other categories. It would be a candidate for your film club Cineforum Angelicum.’
‘Thanks for the tip. Do you know why I’m sitting in my music studio now?’
‘I can only guess. It could be new music again. Ah yes, it could have something to do with the previously criticised lyrics.’
‘Bingo. I’m now producing a cover version of the song. The readers of the book can then listen to this music at any time. Do you agree that I should use the word ‘avatar’ instead of ‘woman’?’
‘I have nothing against it. However, as a legal advisor, I say that a striking change in the text is not allowed, otherwise you’re manoeuvring on the fine line between cover and remix…’
I immediately muted *gaborGPT*. I didn’t want to hear any more legal advice. He was still desperately trying to give some text clues in the window, with links for me to click on. I gently closed the window. Then I tinkered for a few minutes until I produced some usable music. That’s how my cover song for this book came about, under my music label ‘Gabor On Drums’.
(Extract from my book: Don’t Drive My Car)
Contact
gaborondrums@gmail.com