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We own a 1975 GMC Sierra Grande 15 in Maine and a 1986 Chevrolet Custom Deluxe 10 in West Texas. Also a pair of 1997 Volvo 850 wagons. Average age in the fleet is 28 years--we're recycling. I've published 3 novels: THE LAW OF DREAMS (2006), THE O'BRIENS (2012), and CARRY ME (2016). Also 2 short story collections: NIGHT DRIVING(1987) and TRAVELLING LIGHT (2013). More of my literary life is at www.peterbehrens.org I was a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study for 2012-13. I'm an adjunct professor at Colorado College and in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte. In 2015-16 I was a Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Autoliterate office is in Car Talk Plaza in Harvard Square, 2 floors above Dewey Cheatem & Howe. SUBSCRIBE TO THE AUTOLITERATE DAILY EMAIL by hitting the button to the right.

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

International R-110, not driverless transportation.

You realize the whole point of driverless cars, from the corporate point of view,  is that you sit there crammed into your seat as a passive, even trapped, subject for advertisements that will be relentlessly pumped at you on what used to be the windshield. (A version of the contemporary United Airlines experience.)
On the other hand, you could buy a truck like this, and drive it, which would force you to pay attention to the world. (The world outside, the highway world, the street world, the world of weird noises from the engine, the water pump, the transmission, etc.)
I think this International Harvester, which I saw again today, as cool as ever, was the first Autoliterate Truck of the Year, way back when.

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