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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Gasoline vehicles dominate our roads, yet they are shockingly wasteful.
Chapter 3: Frustration with a fuel-hungry world inspired bold dreams of automation.
Chapter 4: Robot races became a crucial first step toward building automated vehicles.
Chapter 5: DARPA’s races sparked key breakthroughs that defined automation’s future.
Chapter 6: Detroit and Silicon Valley both helped drive the rise of automated vehicles.
Chapter 7: As GM built electric cars, it was clear that sweeping change was coming.
Chapter 8: We are moving into a disruptive new era of large-scale automation.
Chapter 9: A routine morning commute may be transformed beyond recognition.
Description
Autonomy (2018) chronicles the long story of driverless vehicles and imagines a future that’s almost upon us. From the perspective of an auto-industry insider, the book goes deep into the history of automation, from the US Defense Department’s sponsored races in the Mojave Desert to the innovations of traditional car manufacturers. Lawrence D. Burns describes a world of Silicon Valley geeks and rugged inventors in a narrative that should interest anyone pondering the world to come.
Who Should Listen
- Technology buffs interested in the story of automation
- Car aficionados worried about a future full of driverless vehicles
- Budding roboticists