EAN: 9780062661128

AUTONOMY - LAWRENCE D BURNS CHRISTOPHER SHULGAN...

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 smartphone We stand on the brink of a technological revolution. Soon  few of us will
own our own automobiles and instead will get around in driverless electric vehicles that we
summon with the touch of an app. We will be liberated from driving  prevent over 90% of car
crashes  provide freedom of mobility to the elderly and disabled  and decrease our dependence
on fossil fuels. Autonomy is the story of the maverick engineers and computer nerds who are
creating the revolution. Longtime advisor to the Google Self-Driving Car team and former GM
research and development chief Lawrence D. Burns provides the perfectly-timed history of how we
arrived at this point  in a character-driven and heavily reported account of the unlikely
thinkers who accomplished what billion-dollar automakers never dared. Beginning with the way 9
11 spurred the U.S. government to set a million-dollar prize for a series of off-road robot
races in the Mojave Desert up to the early 2016 stampede to develop driverless technology 
Autonomy is a page-turner that represents a chronicle of the past  diagnosis of the present 
and prediction of the future-the ultimate guide to understanding the driverless car and
navigating the revolution it sparks.

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