Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car and How it Will Reshape Our World

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Lawrence Burns Christopher Shulgan

Autonomy

The Quest to Build the Driverless Car and How it Will Reshape Our World

Lawrence Burns, Christopher Shulgan

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English

William Collins
02 August 2019

Automotive technology & trades; Artificial intelligence; Motor cars: general interest

’A fascinating hybrid. Part freewheeling history of the rise of the modern autonomous vehicle, part intimate memoir from an insider who was on the front lines for much of that history, Autonomy will more than bring readers up to speed on one of today’s most closely watched technologies’ Brian Merchant, author of The One Device

From the ultimate insider – a former General Motors executive and current advisor to the Google Self-Driving Car project – comes the definitive story of the race between Google, Tesla and Uber to create the driverless car.

We stand on the brink of a technological revolution. In the near future, most of us will not own automobiles, but will travel instead in driverless electric vehicles summoned at the touch of an app. We will be liberated from driving, so that the time we spend in cars can be put to more productive use. We will prevent more than 90 percent of car crashes, provide freedom of mobility to the elderly and disabled and decrease our dependence on fossil fuels.

Autonomy tells the story of the maverick engineers and computer experts who triggered the revolution. Lawrence Burns – long-time adviser to the Google self-driving car project (now Waymo) and former corporate vice president of research, development and planning at General Motors – provides the perfectly timed history of how we arrived at this point, in a character-driven and vivid account of the unlikely thinkers who accomplished what billion-dollar automakers never dared.

Beginning at a 2004 off-road robot race across the Mojave Desert with a million-dollar purse and continuing up to the current stampede to develop driverless technology, Autonomy is a page-turning chronicle of the past, a diagnosis of the present and a prediction of the future – the ultimate guide to understanding the driverless car and to navigating the revolution it has sparked.

By: Lawrence Burns
With: Christopher Shulgan
Imprint: William Collins
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 260g
ISBN: 9780008302108
ISBN 10: 0008302103
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 02 August 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lawrence Burns served as corporate vice president of research, development and planning at General Motors, where he oversaw GM’s advanced technology and innovation programs as well as corporate strategy. He was also a professor of engineering practice at the University of Michigan and led the Program for Sustainable Mobility at Columbia University. He has served as an adviser to the Google self-driving car project (now Waymo) since 2011 and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He lives in Franklin, Michigan.

Reviews for Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car and How it Will Reshape Our World

'If you want a glimpse of how the future is being engineered today, there is no better book' Jeffrey Sachs, author of The End of Poverty 'An entertaining and accessible account of the biggest disruption in the history of the auto industry, and indeed the entire transportation industry' Rick Wagoner, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, General Motors 'An insider's view into the thrilling who-will-win-it race to invent and control driverless cars - and the radically altered future that will follow in their wake' Robin Chase, Cofounder, Zipcar, and author of Peers Inc 'A rich and entertaining insider's account . . . required reading for anyone interested in the future of mobility' Roger Martin, coauthor of Playing to Win 'Tells the remarkable story of innovators who are changing transportation as we know it' Clayton M. Christensen, author of The Innovator's Dilemma 'Takes us inside the auto industry as it is today - and what may be a very different industry tomorrow' Daniel Yergin, author of The Prize and The Quest 'Essential reading' The Times