In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which vaughan, a "TV scientist" Turned "Nightmare angel of the highways," Experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more s...In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which vaughan, a "TV scientist" Turned "Nightmare angel of the highways," Experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than the last.