![]() ![]() In an interview, Stanley Kubrick gave a quote which supports this reading, saying, "In the specific case of HAL, he had an acute emotional crisis because he could not accept evidence of his own fallibility. HAL then killed the crew in self-defense, or perhaps murder with aggravated circumstances, depending on your perspective. However, this one error led to Dave and Frank thinking that HAL was untrustworthy and needed to be disconnected. In this reading, this is the only true malfunction HAL has throughout the film. Regardless, Rain's voice was perfect for the eerily calm AI.Īnother, slightly more complex version of this idea was that HAL had a different, much smaller glitch when he reported to Dave that there was a problem with the ship's antenna. And in his case, that was Canada. Perhaps this common perception that Canadian accents are difficult to place for Americans is why they manage to get work so often as news anchors in the United States. Yet it turns out that Rain, like everyone, did come from a specific place. ![]() He was initially considering using Rain as the narrator for the 2001: A Space Odyssey, but once he decided to not include any narration in the film, Kubrick realized that Rain's eerily calm delivery and difficult to place " bland mid-Atlantic accent" were exactly what he was looking for in a voice for HAL. In the end, Kubrick settled on Douglas Rain, who had previously narrated a 1960 documentary called Universe, which Kubrick apparently liked a great deal. Eventually, the automaker removed the game after being unable to officially license it from Namco.To find a new HAL, Kubrick sent out set assistant Benn Reyes to find an actor with a voice that would be "neither patronizing, nor is it intimidating, nor is it pompous, overly dramatic or actorish. In the past, Tesla made news for offering the game Pole Position, initially created by Namco and marketed by Atari, in its collection of games for its centrally mounted entertainment screen. Tesla has been known for references and "easter eggs" sourced from science fiction and other pop cultural works, Electrek notes, the rights for which may or may not have been as free to use as Tesla had expected, so it's not surprising that the automaker will make a change once again to remove an image or IP owned by another copyright holder. That's because HAL 9000, as a fictional character, happens to be intellectual property owned by MGM Studios, which produced the 1968 sci-fi classic. ![]() Tesla introduces 'Dog Mode' to keep pets coolīut a recent update to the sentry mode means it will no longer feature HAL 9000 Electrek now reports that the image of HAL 9000 will be replaced with something a little more generic-a glowing orange eye-in response to a possible copyright issue.Needless to say, Tesla makes life rough for those who engage in retro, 1970s types of crimes like breaking into a parked car or trying to steal its wheels and leave it up on concrete blocks. ![]() In cases of break-ins, the system blares music on full volume in addition to recording video from inside and outside the car. When the system detects a minor threat to the vehicle, it displays a message on its central screen warning that cameras are recording. The system used HAL 9000, the sentient computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey, as the default screen setting in Tesla vehicles when sentry mode is set on standby. The system uses the car's array of cameras, which are a part of the semiautononomous Autopilot driver assist system, to monitor movement around a locked Tesla when the mode is activated, recording video around the car if different types of threats are detected. Tesla's sentry mode has been a curious piece of tech its drivers probably didn't know they needed, but has become one that some now can't live without. ![]()
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