In the Tom Cruise movie Minority Report, the task of preventing crime is performed by psychics known as “precogs”, who see crimes before they happen and alert a special branch of the police department known as Precrime.
At the Australian car-sharing service Car Next Door, that task is performed, not by precogs but machines, which detect crime and other bad behaviour before it becomes a problem and alert the company’s investigative unit.
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