We can get into almost any car and drive away without much trouble. Find the ignition, put the car in gear, grab the steering wheel and go. The readout on the dashboard might be a slightly different color from car to car, but we don’t need much more than a quick look around to get started. We can do this because the controls from one car to the next are very similar. Standardization makes the interface transparent. We drive away without a problem.

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