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A review by lindzey
Fireside Magazine Issue 60, October 2018 by Julia Rios, Danilo Campos
3.0
I read this due to its inclusion in the Hugo voter packet.
I'm still not sure if I liked this story, or just appreciated the way in which it was told. It was a fresh presentation of a well-worn "morality of self driving cars" theme.
The main text is a dry, one-page excerpt from a future textbook on self-driving car technology, followed by several pages of increasingly editorial footnotes. Layered atop that are the "editor"s attempts to make this piece of work less personal, and the "author"'s responses, uniformly concluded with STET.
As you read, it emerges that the "author"s daughter had been killed by a self-driving car that was swerving to avoid a bird, and she had dug deep into the technology to figure out why that decision was made.
I'm still not sure if I liked this story, or just appreciated the way in which it was told. It was a fresh presentation of a well-worn "morality of self driving cars" theme.
The main text is a dry, one-page excerpt from a future textbook on self-driving car technology, followed by several pages of increasingly editorial footnotes. Layered atop that are the "editor"s attempts to make this piece of work less personal, and the "author"'s responses, uniformly concluded with STET.
As you read, it emerges that the "author"s daughter had been killed by a self-driving car that was swerving to avoid a bird, and she had dug deep into the technology to figure out why that decision was made.