Obscure O.V.A., *eX-Driver

Kosuke Fujishima was the creator of the automobile centric manga, You're Under Arrest, which went into the development of this post-cyberpunk 6-episode OVA series. eX-Driver was an original idea Fujishima came up with where cars in the distant mid-21st Century drive themselves similar to in Minority Report, but the concept gets pretty wonky as the anime goes on.

In the future, people no longer know how to drive cars as they are all automated. However, occasional accidents happen where their systems break down leaving the car racing down the street with innocent pedestrians trapped inside. A team of specialists called eX-Drivers have their own cars that they operate manually in order to get on stop each episode's chase scene. The two main drivers are the kindhearted Lorna and the tomboy Lisa that each have their own separate vehicles. The sister act is interrupted by their newest recruit Soichi who is only 12. The conflicting egos play into the ongoing plot which shows how doomed this version of the future is when a former eX-Driver leads a gang of fast and furious wannabes bent only on causing chaos simply for the hell of it.

The problem with creating a science-fiction story set in the future is predicting how technology will develop over time where 90s movies like Johnny Mnemonic had no insight on how computers could change, so making an anime in the early 2000s about how mankind might be naive enough to let surrender all control over to malfunctioning AI. eX-Driver was Fujishima's attempt at trying to follow his own possible phobia ourselves to give in fully to an automated society. The writing is abundant with character jealousies and fan service scattered throughout Fujishima's writing that does play too much into anime stereotypes. The OVA series was 2-episodes longer than the You're Under Arrest OVA, but the difference between the two titles is that one was set in a believable slice-of-life comedy where eX-Driver was expanded with a weak grasp on a more idealistic future.