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| titletext = Sadly, it probably won't even have enough gas to make it to the first border crossing.}} | | titletext = Sadly, it probably won't even have enough gas to make it to the first border crossing.}} | ||
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− | + | == Explanation == | |
+ | A {{w|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 {{w|Anchorage}}, {{w|Alaska}}, which is presumably far from where Black Hat and [[Cueball]] are standing, thus taking the car far away from its owner with relatively little effort on the part of Black Hat. This is the kind of evil prank Black Hat is infamous for. | ||
− | + | 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. The car apparently begins some distance from the Canadian border, since it will likely run out of gas before reaching Canada. Black Hat is expresses regret about this probable failure, although even if the car does not go to Anchorage he will have created a serious problem for its owner. A typical car can travel 300 to 400 miles on a tank of gas, and with no way to know the car was going to Alaska the owner will have to search an area with that radius, and will probably fail to find the car before it is towed. | |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[Black Hat, | + | :[Black Hat, holding a large rock, is addressing Cueball.] |
− | :Black Hat: Would you guess this weighs as much as a small adult? | + | :Black Hat: |
− | :Cueball: What? | + | :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? | |
− | :Cueball: ...Whose car | + | :Black Hat: |
− | :Black Hat: Dunno, but they shouldn't have left it running. | + | :Dunno, but they shouldn't have left it running. |
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Black Hat]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Black Hat]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
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