Driverless (MIT Press): Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead (The MIT Press)

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When human drivers let intelligent software take the wheel: the beginning of a new era in personal mobility.

“Smart, wide-ranging, [and] nontechnical.”
— Los Angeles Times

“Anyone who wants to take note what’s coming should read this fascinating book.”
— Martin Ford , New York Times bestselling writer of Rise of the Robots

In the year 2014, Google fired a shot heard all of 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 are living 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 loosen up and take their eyes off the road.

When human drivers let intelligent software take the wheel, driverless cars will offer billions of people everywhere the world a safer, cleaner, and more convenient mode of transportation. Even supposing the technology is nearly ready, car companies and policy makers will not be. The authors make a compelling case for why government, industry, and consumers want to work together to make the development of driverless cars our society’s next “Apollo moment.”

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