{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"The Long Fall: A Driver on the Edge of Everything","description":"In October two thousand four, cargo truck driver Ramiro Castellanos, thirty nine, steers a seven ton load of green pine lumber down a steep Sierra Madre Occidental dirt road toward the town of Urique in Chihuahua, Mexico. His plan is a routine descent, a delivery, and the long drive home to Culiacan. But four kilometers above the canyon floor the brake pedal goes to the floor and stays there, and the truck begins to climb past sixty kilometers an hour on a road built for twenty five. With the handbrake gone and the edge crumbling beside him, Ramiro has seconds to decide whether to stay in the cab or go through the door into open air above a canyon nearly a kilometer deep. His helper is twenty two years old and it is his first long haul.\r\n\r\nThis episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.","author_name":"Creators Obomedia"}