Robot, Take the Wheel: The Road to Autonomous Cars and the Lost Art of Driving

Jason Torchinsky, a well-known automotive journalist, provides a humorous insider's guide to self-driving cars, the automated future, and the road ahead in his book "Robot, Take the Wheel." He encourages readers to think of self-driving cars as a new machine beyond cars as we know them today and considers how humans will get along with these robots that will take over our cars' jobs, what they will look like, what sorts of jobs they may do, what we can expect of them, how they should act ethically, how we can have fun with them, and how we can make sure there's still a place for those who love to drive, especially with a manual transmission.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 244 pages
Publication date: 23 August 2022
Publisher: Apollo Publishers

From renowned automotive journalist Jason Torchinsky comes a witty insiders guide to self-driving cars, the automated future, and the road ahead.

Self-driving cars sound fantastical and futuristic, and yet they'll soon be on every street in America. Whether it's Tesla's Autopilot, Google's Waymo, Mercedes' Distronic, or Uber's modified Volvo, companies around the world are developing autonomous cars.

But why? And what will they mean for the auto industry and humanity at large?

In Robot, Take the Wheel, Torchinsky, cofounder of The Autopian and former senior editor of Jalopnik, star of Jason Drives, and producer of Jay Leno's Garage, gives a colorful account of the development of autonomous vehicles and considers their likely implications.

He encourages us to think of self-driving cars as an entirely new machine, something beyond cars as we understand them today, and considers how humans will get along with these robots that will take over our cars' jobs, what they will look like, what sorts of jobs they may do, what we can expect of them, how they should act, ethically, how we can have fun with them, and how we can make sure there's still a place for those of us who love to drive, especially with a manual transmission.

This vibrant volume brimming with insider knowledge, humor, and original artwork pushes us to reconsider our understanding of cars, raises fascinating ethical questions, and compels us to act now to shape the automated future.

Dimension: 220 x 142 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781948062978