A funny thing happened to me last week while I was out driving from point A to point B. In the process of decelerating to accommodate a drop in the speed limit, I glanced at my speedometer, only to find a totally alien display had somehow taken control of my car’s dashboard. Instead of miles per hour, I suddenly was looking at kilometers.

And as if that weren’t perplexing enough, even when I finally was able to pull over and check the situation out, I still couldn’t manage to get out of the…