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Are We There Yet? - The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless (Hardcover)
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Are We There Yet? - The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless (Hardcover)
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Robot-controlled cars have already logged millions of miles. These
technological marvels promise cleaner air, smoother traffic, and
tens of thousands of lives saved. But even if robots turn into
responsible drivers, are we ready to be a nation of passengers? In
Are We There Yet?, Dan Albert combines historical scholarship with
personal narrative to explore how car culture has suffused
America's DNA. The plain, old-fashioned, human-driven car built our
economy, won our wars, and shaped our democratic creed as it moved
us about. Driver's ed made teenagers into citizens; auto repair
made boys into men. Crusades against the automobile are nothing
new. Its arrival sparked battles over street space, pitting the
masses against the millionaires who terrorized pedestrians. When
the masses got cars of their own, they learned to love driving too.
During World War II, Washington nationalized Detroit and postwar
Americans embraced car and country as if they were one. Then came
1960s environmentalism and the energy crises of the 1970s. Many
predicted, even welcomed, the death of the automobile. But many
more rose to its defense. They embraced trucker culture and took to
Citizen Band radios, demanding enough gas to keep their big boats
afloat. Since the 1980s, the car culture has triumphed and we now
drive more miles than ever before. Have we reached the end of the
road this time? Fewer young people are learning to drive. Ride
hailing is replacing car buying, and with electrification a long
and noble tradition of amateur car repair-to say nothing of the
visceral sound of gasoline exploding inside a big V8-will come to
an end. When a robot takes over the driver's seat, what's to become
of us? Are We There Yet? carries us from muddy tracks to
superhighways, from horseless buggies to driverless electric
vehicles. Like any good road trip, it's an adventure so fun you
don't even notice how much you've learned along the way.
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