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Six months after surviving a hit-and-run, journalist Rhea Tran finally gets behind the wheel again—with a brand-new dashcam watching her every move. It’s supposed to keep her safe. Instead, it starts talking.

There’s a calm male voice in the passenger seat. It tells her when to turn. It praises her for “doing great.” It knows the crash routes before she drives them. And when Rhea pulls the footage, the timestamp and the waveform say the same impossible thing:

She drove alone.

As Rhea digs into a city “safety” pilot, a therapy app called Co-Pilot, and an ex who just happens to be the department’s crash liaison, she uncovers a pattern of collisions, missing drivers, and quietly altered evidence. The official story insists she was behind the wheel.

The audio says someone else was there.

The Passenger Seat is a gripping psychological thriller about gaslighting at scale—where the villain is part cop, part code, and part narrative itself. If you like flawed investigators, tech that feels one update away from real, and slow-burn dread that pays off hard, you’ll tear through this one.

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