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Overview
"Smart, wide-ranging, [and] nontechnical."
--Los Angeles Times
"Anyone who wants to understand what's coming must read this fascinating book."
--Martin Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Robots
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.
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.
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."
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262534475 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | MIT Press |
| Publication date: | 09/15/2017 |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
| Pages: | 322 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.60(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.80(d) |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgments ix
1 The Robotic Chauffeur 1
2 A Driverless World 23
3 The Ultimate Mobility Device 45
4 A Mind of Its Own 65
5 Creating Artificial Perception 85
6 First There Were Electronic Highways 107
7 Build Smart Cars, not Smart Highways 127
8 Rise of the Robots 149
9 Anatomy of a Driverless Car 171
10 Deep Learning: The Final Piece of the Puzzle 197
11 Fueled by Data 237
12 The Ripple Effects 255
Afterword: The Cambrian Explosion 279
Notes 291
Index 307
What People are Saying About This
As we anticipate the implausible once again becoming inevitable -- when in the near future autonomous vehicles take over our roads, Driverless presents an excellent and comprehensive assessment of this disruptive new technology and the issues and implications relating to its adoption. It's a great roadmap to help us achieve the smoothest possible transition.
Driverless vehicles are poised to usher in a massive disruption of our transportation system, our urban landscapes, our economy -- and quite possibly the very fabric of society. Anyone who wants to understand what's coming must read this fascinating book.
Driverless is a great read for anybody interested in technological, societal, and ethical implications of self-driving cars. The book reaches across fields and issues thoughtfully, and presents a comprehensive view of the state of the art.
Best explanation of deep machine learning for a general audience I've ever read. And I'd never realized how thoroughly driverless cars will reshape the country: no more ambulance sirens, no more road signs, no more drunk drivers. But they could also deepen economic inequality and enable scary new crimes. This book will help us all get ready.
As we anticipate the implausible once again becoming inevitable—when in the near future autonomous vehicles take over our roads, Driverless presents an excellent and comprehensive assessment of this disruptive new technology and the issues and implications relating to its adoption. It's a great roadmap to help us achieve the smoothest possible transition.
—Steven Berkenfeld, Managing Director in Investment Banking, Barclays
Driverless vehicles are poised to usher in a massive disruption of our transportation system, our urban landscapes, our economy—and quite possibly the very fabric of society. Anyone who wants to understand what's coming must read this fascinating book.
—Martin Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the RobotsDriverless is a great read for anybody interested in technological, societal, and ethical implications of self-driving cars. The book reaches across fields and issues thoughtfully, and presents a comprehensive view of the state of the art.
—Daniela Rus, Director, CSAIL, MITBest explanation of deep machine learning for a general audience I've ever read. And I'd never realized how thoroughly driverless cars will reshape the country: no more ambulance sirens, no more road signs, no more drunk drivers. But they could also deepen economic inequality and enable scary new crimes. This book will help us all get ready.
—George Musser, contributing editor at Scientific American and Nautilus magazines, author of Spooky Action at a DistanceAs we anticipate the implausible once again becoming inevitable—when in the near future autonomous vehicles take over our roads, Driverless presents an excellent and comprehensive assessment of this disruptive new technology and the issues and implications relating to its adoption. It's a great roadmap to help us achieve the smoothest possible transition.
—Steven Berkenfeld, Managing Director in Investment Banking, Barclays