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Driverless

By: Hod Lipson, Melba Kurman
Narrated by: George Newbern
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Summary

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 listeners 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".

©2016 Hod Lipson & Melba Kurman (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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Great book that goes into a foundation understanding

The book explains the core of what allows autonomous cars to work. It goes into depth into deep learning, AI and the hardware needed.

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interesting, but not convinced.

the book was interesting, but ... as an ex driving instructor, I used to drum into pupils... be aware of not only what you can see, but what you can't!
Robots struggle to understand what they CAN see, no hope of what they can't!
Many a time I've told a driver to hang back, as a. the brake lights on the vehicle in front aren't working! or b. the load on that skip lorry is not secure. or the workman unloading a long pole or ladder just before the tail end swings into the road at windscreen height.
Easy to teach a computer to play chess, not so easy to teach it to understand the clue to the potential hazard about to unfold.
Robots may be safer than a bad driver, but that's not a difficult level to reach.
Furthermore, we are relying on programmers. The same that were unaware that 99 might precede 100 or the year 2000. Plus many other failings. I recall many photos of trucks following GPS only to become stuck in narrow lanes or following lanes that were actually small rivers.

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Unfortunately

Was structured like more of a manual .. than a book .. Though did enjoy the listen ..

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