When it comes to writing about cars,Never Sleep Alone (1984) Stephen King has form.

Christine. Buick 8s. Those trucks that come alive and terrorise people trapped in a rest stop. The list goes on.

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Admittedly most of those wouldn't be vehicles you'd be particularly keen to encounter IRL. But King's latest invention, which he tweeted about on Sunday, sounds significantly friendlier.

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People on Twitter were all for it.

Well, chances are, we're not going to have that car anytime soon, so it only seems fair that we should at leastget a short story about it.

The idea definitely has the potential for a creepy twist or two.


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