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Anonymous at Thu, 7 Mar 2024 23:52:39 UTC No. 16062046

> IN THE PAST HALF DECADE, a small publishing miracle has taken place: many books about driverless cars are available for purchase, whereas driverless cars are not. For what feels like the first time in the twenty-first century, prose has outrun product. Book-length analysis has sped past tech-sector hype. As massive companies like Volvo, General Motors, Tesla, and others spent the 2010s missing preposterously optimistic release dates for their driverless prototypes, writers conducted research and interviews. They finished draft after draft. They no doubt procrastinated, often severely, and still, still they beat the wunderkind roboticists of the autonomous vehicle (AV) realm to the marketplace.

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/driving-into-the-wreck-mcginty