The horrifying theory behind Pixar's Cars movies

Ever wondered why the vehicles in Pixar’s ‘Cars’ movies are so much like humans? And come to think of it, how come there aren’t any humans? And who made these sentient cars anyway?

These questions – and more – have been approached by car website Jalopnik, and the conclusions are frankly rather disturbing.

Writer Jason Torchinsky has floated the notion of ‘the homunculus theory’; that the world of ‘Cars’ isn’t another world where cars are sentient beings… it’s our world.

So where are all the people? Well, according to the theory… the people ARE the cars, a horrifying chimera of flesh and machine developed after ‘a biological calamity or plague occurred, and killed off the vast majority of people and animal life’.

Following the evolution of autonomous cars, only communities of ‘gearheads’ – those who loved to drive themselves, and drove their own cars – survived, and went on to develop ‘cybernetic interfaces’ between themselves and their vehicles.

“Whatever killed off most of the people must have made outdoor life still dangerous for animal life, so the surviving humans began to spend more and more time in their cars,” he explains.

“Eventually, cybernetic interfaces between humans and cars were developed, setting the path of human/automotive evolution down a whole new path.

“As time went on, this symbiotic relationship between man and car grew even stronger. Cars become bodies to house the humans within, keeping them safe but closed off to the world. Genetic engineering was used, along with artificial amniotic vats, to produce new humans.

“Eventually, automated, robotic factories to produce cars were built, and human babies were produced in amniotic vats, and then directly embedded within an automotive exoskeleton/body.”

It does explain why the world is so similar to ours, and why the cars in ‘Cars’ still have doors and the like, and behave like humans.

“This is why all the cars in ‘Cars’ are fundamentally human in personality, culture, and intelligence: inside, they are human. There’s literally (well, fictitiously literally) a genetically-engineered, stunted, freakishly emaciated-looking human inside every car in the ‘Cars’ universe,” he goes on.

Anyway, sleep well.

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