Driverless cars are the future. That is what the tech giants, the auto industry and even the government want us to think. Almost daily there are media stories about how we will soon all be able to rip
"Smart, wide-ranging, [and] nontechnical." -- Los Angeles Times"Anyone who wants to understand what's coming must read this fascinating book." -- Martin Ford , New York Times bestselling author of
While Driverless Cars can feel like science fiction, they are a surprisingly imminent issue for the legal community. Commercially available vehicles already have many ‘quasi-autonomous’ features – suc
In the year 2014, Google fired a shot heard all the way to Detroit. Google's newest driverless car had no steering wheel and no brakes. The message was clear: cars of the
How driverless cars will change the way we live, play and work, and what technologies make them possible.Few inventions have changed life as much as the car. These large hunks of steel and horsepower
Since the industrial revolution, innovations in transportation technology have continued to re-shape the spatial organization and temporal occupation of the built environment. Today, autonomous vehicl
This book looks at the latest advances in autonomous driving, demonstrating that a future once considered science fiction is now close at hand. Acceptance of driverless cars relies on more than just
‘Truly fascinating’ Brian Merchant, author of The One Device From the ultimate insider – a former General Motors executive and current advisor to the Google Self-Driving Car project – comes the defini
The country's leading transport expert describes how the driverless vehicle revolution will transform highways, cities, workplaces and laws not just here, but across the globe. Our time at the wheel i
Big tech and big auto have taught robots to drive. Are Americans ready to be a nation of passengers?In this “captivating” (New Yorker) and “engaging” (Wall Street Journal) book, historian Dan Albert e
An automotive and tech world insider investigates the quest to develop and perfect the driverless car—an innovation that promises to be the most disruptive change to our way of life since the smartpho
In recent years, tech companies have been teaching robots to drive. Those who would sell us self- driving cars promise that they will reduce pollution, eliminate traffic, and prevent countless injurie
A deep dive into the race to develop and perfect the driverless car—an innovation that promises to be the most disruptive change to our way of life since the smartphone—by a veteran insider of th
With the rise of shared and networked vehicles, autonomous vehicles, and other transportation technologies, technological change is outpacing urban planning and policy. Whether urban planners and poli
A computer beats the reigning human champion of Go, a game harder than chess. Another is composing classical music. Labs are creating life-forms from synthetic DNA. A doctor designs an artificial trac
Since the industrial revolution, innovations in transportation technology have continued to re-shape the spatial organization and temporal occupation of the built environment. Today, autonomous vehicl
"2030 The Driverless World" is a business book, with a time traveler narrative about how to get from 2017 to the Driverless World of 2030 where human drivers share the road with autonomous vehicles, a
Technology is advancing faster than ever-but is it for better or for worse? On the one hand, astonishing technology developments from personalized genomics to self-driving cars could make our lives he
Technology is advancing faster than ever-but is it for better or for worse? On the one hand, astonishing technology developments from personalized genomics to self-driving cars could make our lives he
Technology is advancing faster than ever – but for better or for worse? On the one hand, astonishing technology developments from personalized genomics to self-driving cars to drones to artificial int
’A fascinating hybrid. Part freewheeling history of the rise of the modern autonomous vehicle, part intimate memoir from an insider who was on the front lines for much of that history, Autonomy will m
Driverless cars are nearly here and it’s time for us all to think about the future we want. The scope of the changes and economic upheaval they will unleash over the coming decades is unparalleled in
