“Maximum Overdrive” Was Not Supposed to Be a Documentary

Don’t know why this was invented: a robot which can choose to deliberately harm humans.

Now I get nervous whenever my Roomba vacuums near my gun collection.

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  1. I get nervous when my mandated Smartmeter(c) tells me it’s time to stand in water and change a fuse that has not yet shown any sign of failure.

    I get nervous because my automatic garage door asks me: “Come investigate the borderline of the garage. I need to show you something.”

    I get nervous when they keep trying to convince me to buy a driverless funny car.

  2. One day I was minding my business upstairs while Roomba was clanking away downstairs. Then I heard what sounded like a jet engine running below. I went down to check it out and found that Roomba had ‘accidentally’ run into the foot switch that controls the house built-in vacuum system. This gave me pause…

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