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{{comic
 
| number    = 1559
 
| date      = August 3, 2015
 
| title    = Driving
 
| image    = driving.png
 
| titletext = Sadly, it probably won't even have enough gas to make it to the first border crossing.}}
 
 
 
 
==Transcript==
 
:[Black Hat, holding a bag, is addressing Cueball.]
 
:Black Hat:
 
:Would you guess this weighs as much as a small adult? 
 
:Cueball:
 
:What?
 
:Uh, probably.
 
:Black Hat:
 
:Great!
 
:Thump
 
:Please fasten your seatbelt.
 
:click
 
:Take me to Anchorage, Alaska.
 
:Navigating
 
:slam
 
:vroom
 
:Black Hat:
 
:I love self driving cars.
 
:Cueball:
 
:...Whose car was that?
 
:Black Hat:
 
:Dunno, but they shouldn't have left it running.
 
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Black Hat]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 
 
 
== Explanation ==
 
 
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A self driving car is a car that requires no human interaction to navigate streets to a destination. Thus, when Black Hat places the rock that weighs "as much as a small adult" into the car's seat, he begins the process of fooling the car into thinking it has an occupant when it does not. His purpose in doing so appears to be to send the car to Anchorage, Alaska, which is presumably far from where Back Hat and Cueball are standing, thus taking the car far away from its owner with relatively little effort on the part of Black Hat.
 
 
The title text references the fact that driving to Alaska from the continental or continuous 48 states requires two border crossings, once into Canada from the mainland, and once from Canada into Alaska.
 

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