Vehicles

    When we drive we could be en route to any location.  But while we're in the car there's absolutely no where to go.  Shouldn't be much of a problem though.

   Comfort and entertainment are standard now. So are safety systems that are advanced enough to know where the occupants are, how much space they take up, and their position/orientation.  But even with all those things going for them a passenger makes for a captive audience.

   Here's another what-if scenario for you to consider for the driver and front passenger (I don't know for sure we can limit this to the front seats - I'm not actually sure how I know or think I know any of this).

   Let's start with something that MIT researchers announced in 2019.

Really cool link: https://www.media.mit.edu/articles/watch-this-device-translate-silent-thoughts-into-speech/

   The short story is some really sharp guys and gals designed a system of sensors, software + AI, and trained it to translate thoughts into words by way of the throat.  It really does that.  It's technically able to read a person's thoughts as they have them.  And it doesn't take them by force or limit the users control over it.  Very cool.

   There's another way to do almost the same thing.  But it works best with a captive audience member who can't get up and move away once their unconscious becomes aware of what's happening.  You may not have a warm fuzzy feeling about this other way after reading that.

   I don't blame you.  If you detour back the post on Night Terrors you'll notice mention of another kind of PTSD event that can cause Night Terrors.  It's just that most people won't remember the event happened (makes it even harder to recover from in my opinion) for the 2 reasons listed in that post.

   Before passenger safety systems the only places to worry about were home and work.  But car manufacturers have been quick to add ultrasound based occupant and external systems (safety is good). And with improvements in software update-ability those precisely controllable emitters can be re-purposed with just an update.

   How does it work?  Take the ability to modulate ultrasound so it's perceived by a person.

   Yes we will all have telepathic abilities temporarily.  But they won't be granted so you can use them. They'll be granted to someone else to use on you.

   All that's left is to saturate the people in the front seat with ultrasound to cause every muscle in their body to start tensing up.  You can practice as much as you want on compensating for that effect and staying relaxed.  That's actually the best way to defend against what happens next.

   Once the muscles in your throat start tensing it up you'll be significantly easier to capture sound from.  And that's whether you say anything out loud or only to yourself.

   Guess what? The connection between our thoughts and vocalization/subvocalization (we all have it btw)?  It can now be manipulated to where each and every though becomes locked into you vocalization/subvocalization so good luck having a single thought you don't uncontrollably say OUT LOUD.

   Oh, more thing.  It can and is fine tuned for the person being used on.  The point being to operate at the bare minimal instruction on your awareness so you don't realize it's being done.

   Do you know how awareness works?  If you don't it's a good time to find this out.  You will give away the answer to any and every question you're asked and you won't realize you're doing it.