The following article contains spoilers from "The Signal and the Outsiders: Part One" in Batman: Urban Legends #18, on sale now.

Batman doesn't kill has been one of the core tenets of the Dark Knight since his very early superhero career. Apparently, his car also follows the same principle. "The Signal and the Outsiders: Part One" in Batman: Urban Legends #18 (by Brandon Thomas, Alberto Jimenez Albuquerque, John Kalisz, and Steve Wands) saw Batman in a high-speed chase with the Wonderland gang, during which he remotely ordered the batmobile to scan the streets to find a safe place to crash.

This explains how, despite Gotham being a busy city, and car chases occurring all the time, Batman has never actually hit anyone with the batmobile, even by accident. The car has literally been programmed to plot safe courses of action and even crashes if it comes down to it. It also seems likely that all his vehicles have similar programming installed, reinforcing how Batman always has a plan for everything.

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The Batmobile Can Plan a Safe Crash

The idea that Batman has protocols in his vehicles to prevent him from hitting anyone makes a lot of sense. Batman undoubtedly trained how to be an expert driver, but no matter how good a person is, human error eventually causes a problem. That, or one of the criminals Batman is chasing down deliberately causes an accident. To that end, machinery will have to compensate for those unforeseen events. It's demonstrated in his chase that the car can drive itself, all while calculating the necessary routes needed to find a safe place to crash as soon as possible.

It's more surprising that this kind of thing hasn't been shown beforehand. Everyone knows that the batmobile can drive itself, it's done a number of incredible things over the years, but this seems like a development that should have been introduced sooner to make sense of things. Batman has been getting into car chases for most of his career, this finally answers how he's never hit anyone in all that time.

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The Batmobile Crashes Safely

There are also some questions about why Batman hasn't shared this piece of technology with the rest of the world. Yes, preventing a highly dangerous vehicle like the batmobile from getting into a crash that could kill someone is excellent, but people lose their lives to car crashes all the time. Batman could easily have used Wayne Industries to patent this technology and distribute it to cars everywhere. That might end up saving more lives than Batman has over his long career.

Overall though, this is a much-needed addition to the batmobile. It removes the suspension of disbelief while giving Batman a useful new tool in his arsenal against crime. Now if only that tech could be applied to greater degrees, he could do more lasting good than punching a criminal in the face ever could.