From famed automotive journalist Jason Torchinsky comes a witty
insider's guide to self-driving cars, the automated future, and the
road ahead. Self-driving cars sound fantastical and futuristic and
yet they'll soon be on every street in America. Whether it's
Tesla's Autopilot, Google's Waymo, Mercedes's Distronic, or Uber's
modified Volvo, companies around the world are developing
autonomous cars. But why? And what will they mean for the auto
industry and humanity at large? In Robot, Take the Wheel,
Torchinsky, cofounder of The Autopian and former senior editor of
Jalopnik, star of Jason Drives, and producer of Jay Leno's Garage,
gives a colorful account of the development of autonomous vehicles
and considers their likely implications. He encourages us to think
of self-driving cars as an entirely new machine, something beyond
cars as we understand them today, and considers how humans will get
along with these robots that will take over our cars' jobs, what
they will look like, what sorts of jobs they may do, what we can
expect of them, how they should act, ethically, how we can have fun
with them, and how we can make sure there's still a place for those
of us who love to drive, especially with a manual transmission.
This vibrant volume brimming with insider knowledge, humor, and
original artwork pushes us to reconsider our understanding of cars,
raises fascinating ethical questions, and compels us to act now to
shape the automated future.
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