Our safety conscious culture and insurance risk reduction could result in such technology being mandatory within ten years.
Fully autonomous vehicles are clearly more expensive than partially autonomous vehicles, so it’s quite reasonable we’ll see collision avoidance technology before we see fully autonomous vehicles. Many manufacturers are starting with small pieces of autonomy: maintaining location within a lane, maintaining the distance from the car ahead of them. As we know, Google has an autonomous car, and car manufacturers, such as Toyota, are working on them now. Semi-autonomous cars: In an early scene of the novel, Leon runs across the street, trusting that the cars will automatically stop due to their mandatory “SafetyPilots”.Not surprisingly, readers have found these topics contentious.Įdit: Thanks so much for the questions everyone! I had fun answering them. These themes have rarely (if ever) been explored in mainstream novels where they serve as the backdrop for the character, rather than to purposely titillate the reader.
I think Kill Switch is also noteworthy because the main character is polyamorous, kinky, and active in the BDSM community. Kill Switch is about privacy and surveillance, data control and ownership, and the effects these have on personal freedom and expression.
Igloo, the protagonist, is a computer programmer and hacker who is forced to take the reins in a showdown with the government over control of the Internet. My newest novel is Kill Switch, released just last month. My novels have been recommended by many in the tech community including Brad Feld (cofounder of Foundry Group and Techstars), Harper Reed (former CTO of Obama for America), Ben Huh (former CEO of Cheezburger Network), and my books have been featured on NPR's All Things Considered and the Glenn Beck Radio Program. Wired called my writing " chilling and compelling." I'm known for very realistic portrayals of technology - so much so that my second novel AI Apocalypse is on the reading list for the Future Combat Strategy class at the US Air Force's Air Command College. I'm William Hertling, the author of the Singularity series and the Kill Chain series.
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