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No one at the wheel : driverless cars and the road of the future / Samuel I. Schwartz with Karen Kelly.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : PublicAffairs, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First editionDescription: vii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781610398657
  • 1610398653
Other title:
  • Driverless cars and the road of the future
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction: you can't put this car in reverse -- Yesterday, today, and tomorrow: the future is now -- Infrastructure: less is more -- Traffic and the future of land use -- Business and consumerism -- Saving lives: are AVs good for our health and safety? -- Makers, drivers, passengers, and pedestrians: hard questions and moral dilemmas -- A way forward.
Summary: "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."--Provided by publisher.Summary: "The driverless vehicle revolution will soon transform highways, cities, workplaces, and laws across the globe. Here's how. Our time at the wheel is coming to an end. Driving a car will soon become akin to driving a horse-drawn carriage: a quaint and outdated pastime. Sam Schwartz, a preeminent transportation expert, shows that the radical shift in transportation around the next corner will affect every aspect of our personal and working lives. The ramifications will be dramatic and the transition will be far from seamless. It will make car ownership unusual, and parking a thing of the past; it will overturn the job market for the one in seven Americans who work in transportation-related industries; it will place moral decisions in the hands of algorithms; it will further erode our privacy; and, like every other computer controlled, data-driven process, it will be vulnerable to hacking. Right now, every major carmaker is working on bringing autonomous vehicles to consumers. The fleets are getting ready to roll. Sam Schwartz shows us just how profound that change will be--and how we can engineer the best version of the driverless future for all of us."--Dust jacket.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 is done. Driving will become illegal, as human drivers will be demonstrably more dangerous than cars that pilot themselves. Is this an impossible future, or a revolution just around the corner?

Sam Schwartz, America's most celebrated transportation guru, describes in this book the revolution in self-driving cars. The ramifications will be dramatic, and the transition will be far from seamless. It will overturn the job market for the one in seven Americans who work in the trucking industry. It will cause us to grapple with new ethical dilemmas-if a car will hit a person or a building, endangering the lives of its passengers, who will decide what it does? It will further erode our privacy, since the vehicle can relay our location at any moment. And, like every other computer-controlled device, it can be vulnerable to hacking.

Right now, every major car maker here and abroad is working on bringing autonomous vehicles to consumers. The fleets are getting ready to roll and nothing will ever be the same, and this book shows us what the future has in store.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: you can't put this car in reverse -- Yesterday, today, and tomorrow: the future is now -- Infrastructure: less is more -- Traffic and the future of land use -- Business and consumerism -- Saving lives: are AVs good for our health and safety? -- Makers, drivers, passengers, and pedestrians: hard questions and moral dilemmas -- A way forward.

"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."--Provided by publisher.

"The driverless vehicle revolution will soon transform highways, cities, workplaces, and laws across the globe. Here's how. Our time at the wheel is coming to an end. Driving a car will soon become akin to driving a horse-drawn carriage: a quaint and outdated pastime. Sam Schwartz, a preeminent transportation expert, shows that the radical shift in transportation around the next corner will affect every aspect of our personal and working lives. The ramifications will be dramatic and the transition will be far from seamless. It will make car ownership unusual, and parking a thing of the past; it will overturn the job market for the one in seven Americans who work in transportation-related industries; it will place moral decisions in the hands of algorithms; it will further erode our privacy; and, like every other computer controlled, data-driven process, it will be vulnerable to hacking. Right now, every major carmaker is working on bringing autonomous vehicles to consumers. The fleets are getting ready to roll. Sam Schwartz shows us just how profound that change will be--and how we can engineer the best version of the driverless future for all of us."--Dust jacket.

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