Torchinsky Jason - Robot Take The Wheel The Road To Autonomous Cars And The Lost Art Of Driving - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Robot Take The Wheel The Road To Autonomous Cars And The Lost Art Of Driving
Author(s): Torchinsky Jason
Publisher: Apollo Publishers
Barcode: 9781948062978
Pages: 244 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 8/23/2022
Category: Motor Cars: General Interest