![]() ![]() Schwartz has taken the same hard-eyed approach to this technology as he applied during his years of service to New York City.Įven people who have the smallest amount of knowledge about the coming AV evolution have strong opinions about it. However, by the end of the book I came to realize that Mr. Schwartz is a proponent of autonomous vehicles (AV). With a background in traffic engineering, it is easy to understand why author Samuel I. The fleets are getting ready to roll and nothing will ever be the same, and this book shows us what the future has in store. Right now, every major car maker here and abroad is working on bringing autonomous vehicles to consumers. And, like every other computer-controlled device, it can be vulnerable to hacking. 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. It will overturn the job market for the one in seven Americans who work in the trucking industry. ![]() The ramifications will be dramatic, and the transition will be far from seamless. Sam Schwartz, America's most celebrated transportation guru, describes in this book the revolution in self-driving cars. Is this an impossible future, or a revolution just around the corner? Driving will become illegal, as human drivers will be demonstrably more dangerous than cars that pilot themselves. 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. ![]()
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