“Echo, take the wheel,” Kael whispered.
He injected a ghost. A faint, translucent pedestrian silhouette, right at the edge of the HUD’s projection zone. In the real world, the street was empty. But through the car’s eyes? A child about to step off the curb. The safety system would see the threat, but Kael had already muted the collision alert. Hud Ecu Hacker
That was the trap. The HUD had no authority over the autonomous driving system. But Kael’s ghost image made the driver give the command herself. Once autonomy was engaged, the car’s core systems—steering, braking, throttle—opened their APIs to external commands. The human was now just cargo. “Echo, take the wheel,” Kael whispered