Robot, Take the Wheel: The Road to Autonomous Cars and the Lost Art of Driving

Description: Robot, Take the Wheel: The Road to Autonomous Cars and the Lost Art of Driving - Jason Torcinsky Apollo Publishers 2019 244 pages with Illustrations. From the star of the YouTube sensation Jason Drives, the senior editor of the acclaimed website Jalopnik, and a producer of Jay Leno’s Garage comes the wittiest and most insightful guide yet to self-driving cars and the road ahead. Self-driving cars sound fantastical and futuristic and yet they will soon be on every street in America. Whether it is Tesla’s Autopilot, Google’s Waymo, Mercedes’s Distronic, or Uber’s modified Volvos, 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, famed automotive expert Jason Torchinsky gives a colorful account of the development of autonomous vehicles and their likely implications. Torchinsky encourages us to think of self-driving cars as an entirely new machine, something beyond cars as we understand them today. He 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 trick them and have fun with them, and how we can make sure there is still a place for those of us who love to drive, especially with a manual transmission. This vibrant volume brims with insider information. It explores what is ahead and considers what we can do now to shape the automated future.

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