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From the witty senior editor of Jalopnik, Gizmodo Media's acclaimed website devoted to cars, technology, and more, comes a revealing, savvy, and humorous look at self-driving cars. 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's Distronic, or Uber's 24,000 modified Volvos, companies across industries and throughout the world are developing autonomous cars. Even Apple, not to be outdone, is rumored to be creating its own technology too. In Robot, Take the Wheel, Jason Torchinsky explores the state of the automotive industry. Through wit and wisdom, he explains why autonomous cars are being made and what the future of automated cars is. Torchinsky encourages us to consider autonomous cars as an entirely new machine, something beyond cars as we understand them today. He considers how we'll 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 with manual or automatic transmission.
Sommario
Introduction
Chapter 1: We’ve Been Here Before
Chapter 2: How Did We Get Here
Chapter 3: How Do They Work, Anyway?
Chapter 4: Semi-Autonomy is Stupid
Chapter 5: They’re Robots, Not Cars
Chapter 6: Ethics, Behaviors, and Being Better Humans than People Are
Chapter 7: They Shouldn’t Look Like Cars
Chapter 8: The Death of the Journey
Chapter 9: Will They Be Like Your Dog
Chapter 10: Save the Gearheads
Info autore
Jason Torchinsky is the cofounder of The Autopian and one of today’s leading writers on cars and technology. Previously, he was senior editor of Jalopnik, a producer of
Jay Leno’s Garage, which he’s guest starred on, and the star of his own show,
Jason Drives, which featured Torchinsky driving obscure cars and has had millions of views on social media. He is also the coauthor
Ad Nauseam, has contributed to a wealth of publications, such as Boing Boing,
Make, and
Mother Jones, and is a stand-up comedian and an artist whose work has exhibited around the world. Torchinsky lives in Chapel Hill, NC.
Beau Boeckmann is president and COO of Galpin Motors, America’s most recognized dealership group and home of the highest volume Ford dealer in the world. In 2006 Boeckmann founded Galpin Auto Sports, which led to a starring role and production title on the #1 rated automotive television show,
Pimp My Ride. Boeckmann has been honored with several industry awards including the Peterson Automotive Museum’s first Visionary Award and was inducted into the National Rod & Custom Car Hall of Fame. Boeckmann serves as a key member of Ford Motor Company’s Product Committee, Aston Martin’s Dealer Advisory Panel, and the Ford Dealers Advertising Association. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.
Riassunto
From the star of the YouTube sensation Jason Drives, the senior editor of the acclaimed website Jalopnik, and a producer of Jay Leno's Garage comes the wittiest and most insightful guide yet to self-driving cars and the road ahead. Self-driving cars sound fantastical and futuristic and yet they'll soon be on every str
Prefazione
Mainstream media targets will include tech, automotive, general interest, news, and lifestyle, print and digital publications, podcast, radio, and TV outlets (author is a pro on camera) with options for excerpts and interviews. Targets to include outlets such as Wired, Forbes, Inc., The Atlantic, HowStuffWorks, Car & Driver Magazine, GQ, NPR’s Short Wave, BuzzFeed, and much more.
Local media in author’s home state of North Carolina to include Chapel Hill Magazine, The Charlotte Observer, Winston-Salem Journal, The News & Observer, News & Record, The Fayetteville Observer, Star-News, Asheville Citizen Times, The Herald-Sun, and High Point Enterprise.
Trade media outreach will target Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Library Journal, ALA Booklist, and Shelf Awareness.
Holiday gift lists: Releasing in the fall, in advance of the holidays, Robot, Take the Wheel is an affordable gift for all car lovers. It will be pitched for gift roundup lists and is perfect for gift ideas tables in stores.
Promotion through Jalopnik, The Autopian, and author’s direct social media followers: Direct marketing to Jalopnik’s audience of 100,000 monthly unique viewers, 426,000 Facebook followers, and 323,000 Twitter followers; the followers of the author’s new website, The Autopian, which in its first week shot to 3,000 Twitter followers (before the official launch); the author’s 17,000 Twitter followers; and the millions of fans of his YouTube videos.
Testo aggiuntivo
“One of my favorite guests on the Tonight Show was an astronaut named Story Musgrave. Although not as famous as Neil Armstrong or Buzz Aldrin, Story was not only an astronaut, he was also a physicist, an academic, and a philosopher. He could translate space travel into words and pictures that people could really understand. I like to think of Jason as my automotive astronaut, able to take his experiences and really make the reader feel like they are riding along with him. Jason is a unique blend of dork, car guy, and intellectual all rolled into one.” —Jay Leno, host of Jay Leno’s Garage and former host of the Tonight Show with Jay Leno
“Everything you wanted to know about autonomous vehicles but were afraid to ask. This delightfully written book by the longtime Jalopnik contributor is an essential guide to how driverless vehicles work—and how they have the potential to dramatically reshape society.” —Curbed
“An interesting and light hearted look at what the future of autonomous vehicles might be like.” —The Gearhead Project
“As car manufacturers and other companies race to develop autonomous vehicles, the need for a sherpa in the potential robot uprising is more pressing than ever. Torchinsky is that sherpa.” —Book & Film Globe
“Robot, Take The Wheel is an entertaining yet serious examination of what automation is and how it applies to our favorite pastime: driving.” —Automoblog
“It’s a great book. I encourage you to check it out.” —In Wheel Time
“Jason Torchinsky’s Robot, Take the Wheel tops our list of must-read books for anyone interested in autonomous vehicles.” —Ground Truth podcast
