The Harsh Reality of the Self-Driving Car Industry

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Joanne McNeil, a tech critic, reveals the truth behind the self-driving car industry in her new novel Wrong Way. The novel explores how Big Tech's empty promises shatter individual lives, with a focus on a gig economy worker named Teresa who becomes involved with a tech behemoth called AllOver. AllOver's rideshare service claims to have driverless cars, but the reality is far from it.

What’s going on underneath the hood of the self-driving car industry? According to Joanne McNeil, the tech critic behind a thrilling new industry satire, the harsh reality is a whole lot of “bizarre and usually non-functional technologies that don’t deliver on their promises.” The author of Lurking makes her blistering fiction debut with Wrong Way, a closely observed novel about how individual lives are shattered by Big Tech’s hollow promises.

After years scraping by in the gig economy, Teresa’s life changes forever when she’s hired for a mysterious new role at AllOver, a tech behemoth billing itself as “an experience company.” The sizeable paycheck is seductive, as is the bombastic sales pitch from AllOver: “You are getting paid to learn a trade that, to the rest of the world, hasn’t been invented yet. You’re a VIP with a backstage pass to a new career.” There’s just one problem. AllOver’s new rideshare service boasts driverless cars (called “CRs”), but the reality is more sinister—instead, contractors like Teresa operate the vehicles while hiding inside a secret compartmen

 

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