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Robot, Take the Wheel

By: Jason Torchinsky, Beau Boeckmann - foreword
Narrated by: Roger Wayne
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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' 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's 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's ahead and considers what we can do now to shape the automated future.

©2019 Jason Torchinsky (P)2019 Tantor
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a great and thought-provoking book

the author provides a very well articulated and thought-provoking view on how automation and vehicles will come together and benefit us in the future also points out some of the downfalls that we should be aware of. this was a very enjoyable book to listen to

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