Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car - And How It Will Reshape Our World. Lawrence Burns

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       Copyright

      William Collins

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain in 2018 by William Collins

      Copyright © Lawrnce D. Burns 2018

      Cover image: Shutterstock

      Lawrence D. Burns asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

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      Source ISBN: 9780008302061

      Ebook Edition © October 2016 ISBN: 9780008302085

      Version: 2018-07-26

       Dedication

      To engineers, who make what’s possible real

       Epigraph

      One new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.

      —Thomas Jefferson

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       PART II: THE NEW DNA OF THE AUTOMOBILE

       Chapter Four: A Fish Out of Water

       Chapter Five: Epiphanies

       Chapter Six: Close Only Counts in Horseshoes

       PART III: THE AGE OF AUTOMOBILITY

       Chapter Seven: The 101,000-Mile Challenge

       Chapter Eight: The Seeds of Change

       Chapter Nine: The $4 Trillion Disruption

       PART IV: THE TIPPING POINT

       Chapter Ten: The Stampede

       Chapter Eleven: Driving Opportunity

       Chapter Twelve: Human Factors

       Epilogue: The Quest Goes On

       Acknowledgments

       A Note on Sources

       Index

       About the Author

       About the Publisher

       Introduction

       THE PROBLEM WITH CARS

       I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.

      —JOHN CAGE

      The way we get around is changing. For the first time in 130 years, we’re in the midst of a major transformation in automobile transportation. In contrast to the personally owned, gasoline-powered, human-driven vehicles that have dominated the last century, we’re transitioning to mobility services based on electric-powered and driverless vehicles, paid for by trip or through subscriptions.

      What does this mean? Soon, many of us will no longer need to own or drive a car. Instead, we will rely on services that safely and conveniently use autonomous vehicles to take us where we want to go. The providers will manage every aspect of our transportation experiences, from vehicle parking to cleaning and maintenance to recharging. The hassles of car ownership will be eliminated. No longer will we need to shop for, finance


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