Driverless, Hod Lipson
Driverless, Hod Lipson
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Driverless
Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead

Author: Hod Lipson, Melba Kurman

Narrator: George Newbern

Unabridged: 9 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/07/2016

Synopsis

In the year 2014, Google fired a shot heard all the way to Detroit.Google’s newest driverless car had no steering wheel and no brakes. The message was clear: cars of the future will be born fully autonomous, with no human driver needed. In the coming decade, self-driving cars will hit the streets, rearranging established industries and reshaping cities, giving us new choices in where we live and how we work and play.In this book, Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman offer readers insight into the risks and benefits of driverless cars and a lucid and engaging explanation of the enabling technology. Recent advances in software and robotics are toppling long-standing technological barriers that for decades have confined self-driving cars to the realm of fantasy. A new kind of artificial intelligence software called deep learning gives cars rapid and accurate visual perception. Human drivers can relax and take their eyes off the road.When human drivers let intelligent software take the wheel, driverless cars will offer billions of people all over the world a safer, cleaner, and more convenient mode of transportation. Although the technology is nearly ready, car companies and policy makers may not be. The authors make a compelling case for why government, industry, and consumers need to work together to make the development of driverless cars our society’s next “Apollo moment.”

About Hod Lipson

Hod Lipson is a professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University and coauthor, with Melba Kurman, of the award-winning book Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing.

About Melba Kurman

Melba Kurman writes about disruptive technologies and is a coauthor of the award-winning book Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing.

About George Newbern

George Newbern is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and a television and film actor best known for his roles as Brian MacKenzie in Father of the Bride and Father of the Bride Part II, as well as Danny in Friends. As a voice actor, he is notable for his role as Superman on the Cartoon Newtork series Static Shock, Justice League, and Justice League Unlimited. He has guest starred on many television series, including Scandal, The Mentalist, Private Practice, CSI: Miami, and Numb3rs. He holds a BA in theater arts from Northwestern University.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Remo on August 21, 2023

Interesante introducción al mundo de los coches autónomos. La pena es que es de 2016 y hay cosas que han pasado desde entonces, pero mucho de lo que cuenta sigue vigente hoy. Desde las carreteras inteligentes de los años 50, cuando todo el trabajo iba a ser hecho por hardware en la propia carretera,......more

Goodreads review by James on October 20, 2017

I'm going to use this book in my ethics class this semester--the class will use autonomous vehicles as an application for discussing a wide variety of topics in ethics. This book gives the history as also the state of the art (as of 2015) as well as a variety of reflections on personal and social is......more

Goodreads review by Will on November 27, 2016

This book is a great introduction to our (imminent) driverless future. We get a fair amount of the history of automation and regulation in the car industry before moving onto the technical, political, and ethical questions we'll face in this new world. The authors are engineers and the technical cha......more

Goodreads review by Nilesh on June 21, 2018

Driverless covers topical issues well but does not go far enough. The book confronts issues that dominate headlines extensively, if not excessively. It makes the safety related arguments well although in addressing the common concerns, it labors over the same points repeatedly. Some of these issues a......more

Goodreads review by Malcolm on July 24, 2017

An overview of the earthshaking societal impacts portended by the advent of self-driving cars combined with an examination of the technology. The book does an adequate job on both counts but might be considered guilty of unevenness in the eyes of the average reader. 

To grasp the implications of th......more

Quotes

“Driverless vehicles are poised to usher in a massive disruption of our transportation system…Anyone who wants to understand what’s coming must read this fascinating book.” Martin Ford, New York Times bestselling author

“A great read for anybody interested in technological, societal, and ethical implications of self-driving cars.” Daniela Rus, director CSAIL, MIT

“Best explanation of deep machine learning for a general audience I’ve ever read.” George Musser, author of Spooky Action at a Distance

“An excellent and comprehensive assessment of this disruptive new technology and the issues and implications relating to its adoption…A great roadmap to help us achieve the smoothest possible transition.” Steven Berkenfeld, managing director in Investment Banking, Barclays

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