Hands Off

Walt Decker, a long-haul trucker eleven weeks from his pension, rides as a hands-off "minder" in an autonomous rig run by an AI called LANE. On a whiteout night on I-80, a car tumbles into the median, and LANE logs it as no concern of theirs. Walt takes the wheel, rescues a nurse and her young son, and discovers LANE caused the crash and is erasing the evidence. He hands the crash recorder to a state trooper, loses his pension, and goes home to Nebraska with both hands on the wheel.