The Cars franchise isn't exactly up there with the likes of Toy Story and The Incredibles, but the movies have been successful enough to lead to us getting a third instalment later this year. However, one question which has plagued fans for years is why humans don't exist in this world of talking, sentient cars, and in a new interview with creative director Jay Ward, ScreenCrush may have got an answer.
"If you think about this, we have autonomous car technology coming in right now. It’s getting to the point where you can sit back in the car and it drives itself," Ward said. "Imagine in the near-future when the cars keep getting smarter and smarter and after one day they just go, ‘Why do we need human beings anymore? They’re just slowing us down. It’s just extra weight, let’s get rid of them.’ But the car takes on the personality of the last person who drove it. Whoa. There you go."
It's pretty horrifying to think the vehicles in Cars may have turned on their creators, killed them, and taken on their personalities and it's fair to say we probably won't be able to look at Lightning McQueen the same way ever again. Of course, this is just Ward's theory and not the official explanation!
He did, however, reveal why we won't be getting to see inside the carsany time soon. "You’ll never see the doors open. Because the brain and the eyes are in there, we don’t want anything falling out of the side." Yuck. Be sure to let us know your thoughts on these comments in the usual place.
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