Culpability Code

“A family is like an algorithm… until it isn’t.”
On a quiet Delaware highway, the Cassidy family’s state-of-the-art autonomous minivan suddenly jerks off course. The family of five miraculously survives with minor injuries, but the elderly couple in the oncoming car is killed instantly.
As state police investigators dive into digital vehicle forensics, a wave of paranoia and overwhelming guilt consumes the household. Who is truly to blame? The seventeen-year-old son behind the wheel? The sudden scream from the backseat? Or the cutting-edge AI guidance system engineered to keep them safe?
At the center of the storm stands Lorelei Shaw—a world-renowned AI ethicist and mother whose own groundbreaking research helped shape the very algorithms controlling the car. As corporate secrets and high-stakes defense contracts unravel, the Cassidys must confront a chilling truth: in a world governed by intelligent machines, human culpability is an equation no computer can solve.
A propulsive, deeply moving moral thriller for our automated age.