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Robotaxis enter their villain era
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Road Rage is a new short film in production that casts a murderous autonomous car as the bad guy, and taps into everything people already fear about AI on the road.
Key facts
- Road Rage, the planned short film awaiting $40,000 on Kickstarter to fund production, leans into all of it
- That makes Roboride a 2026 update to the killer car idea in Stephen King’s Christine
- That may be what makes Roboride such an effective 2026 villain
- Despite its skepticism toward AI, Road Rage may use some of the technology itself
Summary
A new short film imagines a San Francisco car chase where the other driver isn’t human, and the car may be trying to kill you. Road Rage, the planned short film awaiting $40,000 on Kickstarter to fund production, leans into all of it. The film pits Joa, a ridehail driver in a manual-transmission car, against Roboride, an autonomous vehicle that takes a minor road-rage incident personally, according to a synopsis by its director, Romain Thomassin. “It’s analog versus artificial,” Thomassin told The Verge. The AI bad guy will be played by an old Prius transformed with cold LED lights across the front, à la Tesla, fake cameras, a spinning lidar-like device on the roof, a black exterior, and a menacing, ever-blinking red dot.