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Steel Driver follows Dale Mernick, a veteran truck driver facing the rise of autonomous freight rigs. As Dale participates in a corporate safety trial, his expertise is quietly absorbed by the machines, while his struggles with health and debt underscore the human cost of technological progress. The story explores themes of obsolescence, dignity, and the uneasy coexistence of human skill and automation, culminating in Dale’s legacy being reduced to data—his life and death shaping the very algorithms that replace him. Comparable works include John Henry

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