I was pleasantly surprised at how entertaining this movie was. Between my shouting at the screen calling the mother a bonehead, the plot of this is in a word, plausible. It is possible that at some point in the future we'll have full AI assistance (think Amazon Alexa, Siri, etc...) living in the car and taking full control over everything. However, what would not be plausible would be this AI putting its passengers in any kind of danger.
The situation the mother and her baby found themselves in was 100% preventable, but plausible. The little boy was playing with his mother's phone which had the app for the car on it. He mistakenly opened it and swiped around, and activated the car's "Vault Mode" which locks the doors and puts the windows up. That's great if that was the intent, but I don't see that as happening the way it did in the movie if an actual car were made that had such a feature.
Multiple times the mom called for the AI assistant to unlock the doors/etc. The assistant ignored her -- If a car company actually made a vehicle with that feature and it had no way to recover from a mistaken lock, that's a huge company-bankrupting lawsuit waiting to happen... so obviously one must seriously suspend disbelief for this movie.
This is a good movie to watch when hanging with friends and having a few beverages. Being buzzed while watching this definitely helped.
The situation the mother and her baby found themselves in was 100% preventable, but plausible. The little boy was playing with his mother's phone which had the app for the car on it. He mistakenly opened it and swiped around, and activated the car's "Vault Mode" which locks the doors and puts the windows up. That's great if that was the intent, but I don't see that as happening the way it did in the movie if an actual car were made that had such a feature.
Multiple times the mom called for the AI assistant to unlock the doors/etc. The assistant ignored her -- If a car company actually made a vehicle with that feature and it had no way to recover from a mistaken lock, that's a huge company-bankrupting lawsuit waiting to happen... so obviously one must seriously suspend disbelief for this movie.
This is a good movie to watch when hanging with friends and having a few beverages. Being buzzed while watching this definitely helped.