Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car-And How It Will Reshape Our World Audiobook (Free)

A deep dive in to the race to develop and perfect the driverless car-an innovation that promises to be the most disruptive change to your life-style because the smartphone-by a veteran insider from the automotive and tech worlds

In Autonomy, former GM executive and current advisor towards the Google Self-Driving Car project Lawrence Burns up offers a sweeping history of the race to make the driverless car a reality. In the past decade, Silicon Valley companies like Google, Tesla and Uber have about Autonomy: The Quest to create the Driverless Car-And How IT’LL Reshape Our World positioned themselves to revolutionize the way we move around by developing driverless automobiles while traditional auto companies like General Motors, Ford, and Daimler have already been fighting back by partnering by with new tech start-ups. It’s not a query of whether the self-driving car will disrupt the automobile market; it’s a issue of when, how, and who’ll win the race.

Using the first driverless car likely to hit markets in less than five years, Burns also looks toward the near future and explains how this new technology will impact our lives-from getting rid of the hassles of driving, parking, and refueling our cars, to eliminating 90 percent of street fatalities, drastically reducing our carbon footprint, and automating yet another segment of blue collar industries, putting more workers out of their jobs.

We are on the brink of a technological trend that claims to fundamentally transformation how we connect to the world. A chronicle of the past, diagnosis of the present, and prediction into the future, Autonomy may be the ultimate guide to understanding the driverless car and to navigating the revolution it sparks.