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.
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.A Comprehensive, Realistic, Practical Study of the Future of Transportation I experienced so many moments of insight as I read this book. Among them were Sam Schwartz's discussions on-The importance of maintaining lane and road markers and protecting roads from unanticipated sources of clutter and confusion, such as road signs defaced with graffiti that would confuse an automated vehicle image processing system;-The criticality of rethinking land use and street real estate allocations among vehicles, bicyclists and pedestrians-The intricate understanding of the non-verbal cues pedestrians and drivers interpret when a driver is edging toward a turn and a pedestrian is trying to cross the street in the crosswalk. Mr. Schwartz's understanding of the complexity of this and the difficulty of having it be translated and used in an artificial intelligence system was masterfully conveyed.-The challenge of having cities and towns dependent on parking violations revenue find other sources of revenue to replace lost revenue.There were many more discussions that wove together the technological, regulatory, economic and social challenges of transitioning to autonomous vehicles. I particularly liked his discussion of the EU's Global Data Protection Regulations and the degree to which they will inhibit the data collection that any artificial intelligence system, including the one that operates with autonomous vehicles, needs to learn and improve itself.The one subject that might have been covered in more depth is the degree to which AVs will depend on curbside communications infrastructure that has fragmented ownership and leasehold rights, obsolete rules on who can connect to a utility pole, and the potential for municipalities to overcharge those who want to build out 5G infrastructure on municipally-owned poles. However, that is a minor omission in an otherwise outstanding book.This is the kind of book that has been written so thoughtfully that I expect to be an exceptionally useful resource 20 years from now.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.
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