I really liked the first two thirds of this book. Set in a near future where automated (self driving) cars are mandated because of how much safer they are than human driven cars and how they improve the roads by driving more efficiently etc.
Unfortunately, the government body that polices any accidents that occur with driverless cars is (surprise, surprise) corrupt and more interested in their own interests than fairness and safety for everyone.
As a protest to this, someone manages to hack into the computer ‘brain’ of several driverless cars and broadcasts to the world live footage of the passengers who are on a pre-set collision course that will kill them all in two hours time. The hacker invites the world (as well as the committee that was meeting to judge on previous driverless car accidents) to vote on which one of the passengers they want the hacker to save or else he will just kill them all.
This part of the book was pretty darn exciting and thought provoking but as the crunch time was seconds away, and there was still at least a third of the book left, I wondered what was going on, and indeed there was a further twist.
The book took a slightly different turn then, and while I didn’t see it coming, I also wasn’t so interested any more and found the last part of the book a bit of a drag. Ah well.
Sarah Wray Writer 