Driverless

<b>When human drivers let intelligent software take the wheel: the beginning of a new era in personal mobility.</b><p>Smart wide-ranging [and] nontechnical.<br><b><i>--Los Angeles Times</i></b></p><p>Anyone who wants to understand what's coming must read this fascinating book. <br><b>--Martin Ford<i> New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>Rise of the Robots</i></b></p><p>In the year 2014 Google fired a shot heard all 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 live and how we work and play.</p><p>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 relax and take their eyes off the road. </p><p>When human drivers let intelligent software take the wheel driverless cars will offer billions of people all over the world a safer cleaner and more convenient mode of transportation. Although the technology is nearly ready car companies and policy makers may not be. The authors make a compelling case for why government industry and consumers need to work together to make the development of driverless cars our society's next Apollo moment.</p>