The Rubber Meets the Road

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i hope it inspires more people, m ed to maybe finish a story there work onerort w i think that am fiction is interesting. There's a phrase, you know, a the rubber meets the road, and it's meant to imply like showing showing a product or proof of something. And in topics like this, because you can be very free about the made up characters and things like that,. You can be very honest and truthful about the realities of the topic that you are writing about.

Given the technology's transformative potential, there is a surprising dearth of quality Science Fiction written about autonomous vehicles. Into that breach steps Patrick McGinty, whose upcoming novel "Test Drive" explores important themes related to AVs as it follows the lives of three test drivers in a climate crisis-stricken Pittsburgh of the near future. McGinty joins the gang to discuss his excellent new fiction, discuss a wide variety of topics, and make the case for renaissance in AV-related SciFi.