By Barry O'Farrell
The traffic incident. The fight in the middle of the road. The other badly beaten driver loaded into the back of the ambulance. All videoed by innocent bystanders on their cell phones.
The prior conviction for an identical offence means Brock is a menace to society when he sits behind the wheel of a car, says the Court, which also permanently cancels his driver’s licence.
Brock accepts the fine and the jail time including a spell in solitary. He can do all that.
What he cannot face when he is released, is a lifetime condemned to riding in Google self-driving cars.
Neat.
This struck me as somewhat distasteful. Does the author mean us to recognize how little his protagonist has learned from his encounter with the justice system, or is there no irony intended? Certainly I’m no fan of moralizing but I’d like to have a little more understanding of the author’s feelings towards his character.
Did this, Brock, guy beat up one of those Google driver dudes and the judge made him drive one as per his sentencing? Couldn’t really tell. Enjoyed the story.