From the star of the YouTube sensation Jason Drives, the senior
editor of the acclaimed website Jalopnik, and a producer of Jay Leno's
Garage comes the wittiest and most insightful guide yet to self-driving
cars and the road ahead.
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's 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.
