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ISBN: B07JNT9RM3
Title: No One at the Wheel Pdf Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future

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 audiobook 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. This audiobook shows us what the future has in store.

Fascinating look at the future of automated cars It will be the best of times. It will be the worst of times. How will your life change when there is No One at the Wheel?“Most transportation experts say that by 2075 driven cars will be completely replaced...By 2035, we may find that the majority of driving miles are completed by machines, not humans.”In 2018, 1.3 million people are projected to die in road crashes with 50 million more injured. The need for a solution is clear. Autonomous vehicles are coming. Every major automobile company has one in development.Will the resulting society be a utopia of staring at your phone continuously while your car drives you to work with no risk of accidents? Or will it cause massive disruption in the economy and overcrowded roadways? What will the one out of seven US residents who work in transportation do for a living? How will they be retrained and who will fund it? The decisions made now will determine our later fate.No One at the Wheel shares the pros and cons of this new technological development. By making analogies to the development of the original cars, the author paints a dim view of the future of driven cars—as bleak as that of a horse and carriage in 1940.I found both the history of cars and the potential of autonomous vehicles fascinating. But I’m still unsure what I can do personally to ensure a rosy outcome. No One at the Wheel is recommended for futurists and historians in equal measure. 3 stars.Thanks to the publisher, PublicAffairs, and NetGalley for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.Poor read Not very enjoyable. Gives extensive history of prior decades automobile facts which don’t ever feel very relevant to today’s autonomous vehicles. He makes definitive statements like ‘AV will clearly create more cars on the road and more congestion’. I’m not saying I agree or disagree but maybe that conclusion should have come after an entire chapter of discussions instead of just throwing it in blindly and factually in chapters 1-3.Balanced Look at Autonomous Vehicles and Our Future With a background in traffic engineering, it is easy to understand why author Samuel I. Schwartz is a proponent of autonomous vehicles (AV). However, by the end of the book I came to realize that Mr. Schwartz has taken the same hard-eyed approach to this technology as he applied during his years of service to New York City.Even people who have the smallest amount of knowledge about the coming AV evolution have strong opinions about it. Some welcome this future while others are adamant about not riding in cars without a human driver. Mr. Schwartz is extremely educated on this topic, one that appears inevitable in one form or another. As with any major change, questions present themselves, some of which may not be solved before an army of autonomous vehicles are on the streets.Mr. Schwartz is not afraid to get his hands dirty, and one of the final chapters deals with the moralistic aspects, including who may be held accountable for accidents and fatalities. When one considers the myriad possibilities in the potential programming of these vehicles, including more loss of personal privacy, it is easier to understand the precarious balancing job people will have when deciding what programming the “driver” should adhere to in different situations.The writing is deep without being dry, multi-faceted without an overwhelming mountain of detail. This future is quickly becoming our “Now,” and this book contains more than enough knowledge to enable readers to understand exactly what is racing our way. Recommended. Five stars.

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