Like David Icke, I regularly get heckled – told I'm imagining things. Specifically, about how the government-corporate nexus plans to completely control vehicles; more finely, to use vehicles to control us. I have told people the "tech" is not just coming but that it is here.

I'm test driving it this week.

The 2026 Subaru Outback (and probably all 2026 Subarus) has something called Acceleration Override Assist embedded deep in its computerized guts. How does it "assist" you? It "limits engine power and reduces acceleration when the system detects the driver is attempting to accelerate into a potential collision."

I italicize the entirety as a kind of primal scream that I expect few will hear.