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No One at the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future Hardcover – November 20, 2018

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The country's leading transport expert describes how the driverless vehicle revolution will transform highways, cities, workplaces and laws not just here, but across the globe.

Our time at the wheel is done. Driving will become illegal, as human drivers will be demonstrably more dangerous than cars that pilot themselves. Is this an impossible future, or a revolution just around the corner?

Sam Schwartz, America's most celebrated transportation guru, describes in this book the revolution in self-driving cars. The ramifications will be dramatic, and the transition will be far from seamless. It will overturn the job market for the one in seven Americans who work in the trucking industry. It will cause us to grapple with new ethical dilemmas-if a car will hit a person or a building, endangering the lives of its passengers, who will decide what it does? It will further erode our privacy, since the vehicle can relay our location at any moment. And, like every other computer-controlled device, it can be vulnerable to hacking.

Right now, every major car maker here and abroad is working on bringing autonomous vehicles to consumers. The fleets are getting ready to roll and nothing will ever be the same, and this book shows us what the future has in store.

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""[Schwartz] knows everything about how cars and people don't get along, having been on the front lines. This book - written in an earnest, conversational style - is his attempt to grapple with a fresh threat that's appeared after decades of progress.... If we heed Gridlock Sam and this valuable, humane book as we move toward a future in which we largely surrender the wheel, we can avoid messing up again."―New York Times Book Review

"This is an essential treatise on a technology whose development and regulation will have an impact on 'the future health of people, economies, cities, and more."―Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

"It's safe to say that few people on the planet know more about guiding vehicles from place to place than Schwartz, an engineer who served as New York City's traffic commissioner for years...An invigorating bit of future-trend prognosticating, generally positive, if warning direly of global gridlock if trends continue. Urban planners, architects, and transportation activists will definitely want to take note."―Kirkus

"Sam Schwartz does a great job of seeing the systems implications to the introduction of autonomous vehicles. No One at the Wheel helps us imagine a world with augmented driving experiences, and how this technology will change transportation as we know it."―James P. Hackett, President and CEO of Ford Motor Company

"Cities need fewer futurists to marvel about transportation technology and more street sages like Sam Schwartz to keep sight of our urban fundamentals. No One at the Wheel tells us how to take cities off of autopilot and shape the driverless future we want to see on our streets."―Janette Sadik-Khan, author of Street Fight and former Commissioner of the New York CityDepartment of Transportation

"This is an excellent book. Sam Schwartz is a giant who has spent a career doing all he can to deliver transportation services that improve the quality of lives. A must-read!"―Alain Kornhauser, host of SmartDriving Cars and professor at Princeton University

"No One At The Wheel gives a balanced primer on the good, the bad and the ugly potential for autonomous vehicles, but with a dose of critical history and great storytelling. Read this book if you want to shape the future vs. let it happen to you."―Gabe Klein, author of Start-UpCity, co-founder of CityFi, and formerCommissioner of the Chicago and Washington DC Departments of Transportation

"No One at the Wheel is a must read for anyone in business, public policy, education or planning to live in the future. Sam is simply brilliant!"
―Jim Simpson, transportationentrepreneur and former Transportation Administrator at the United StatesDepartment of Transportation

About the Author

Sam Schwartz, a.k.a. "Gridlock Sam," is one of the leading transportation experts in the United States today. He served as New York City's traffic commissioner and the New York City Department of Transportation's chief engineer. Schwartz currently runs Sam Schwartz Engineering and is a columnist at the New York Daily News. He has been profiled by the New Yorker, New York Times, and many other national publications. Schwartz lives in New York City and owns a Volvo that can drive without him.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ PublicAffairs; Illustrated edition (November 20, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1610398653
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1610398657
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.01 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1 x 9.75 inches

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Douglas P Heller

One big editorial

Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2019

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This book is much less about autonomous vehicles than the author's decades old policy push to reduce the use of automobiles and infrastructure used by automobiles while ignoring much of the problems for the economy, Uber drivers, the disabled and the increasing numbers of elderly that would be caused if his policies were followed to the extent he hopes. Maybe he likes riding his bike in a snowstorm, but he should also try to get bike riders to stop ignoring red lights, stop going the wrong way on one way streets, stay off sidewalks, use lights at night, and use the bike lanes when available, etc. Maybe he should also consider writing about the advertised subject of his book. The most useful thing he discussed about autonomous vehicles was the idea that if those vehicles stop automatically for pedestrians, pedestrians would learn to ignore them and the cars might not move for hours in places like New york City.

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A Comprehensive, Realistic, Practical Study of the Future of Transportation

Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2018

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I experienced so many moments of insight as I read this book. Among them were Sam Schwartz's discussions on
-The importance of maintaining lane and road markers and protecting roads from unanticipated sources of clutter and confusion, such as road signs defaced with graffiti that would confuse an automated vehicle image processing system;
-The criticality of rethinking land use and street real estate allocations among vehicles, bicyclists and pedestrians
-The intricate understanding of the non-verbal cues pedestrians and drivers interpret when a driver is edging toward a turn and a pedestrian is trying to cross the street in the crosswalk. Mr. Schwartz's understanding of the complexity of this and the difficulty of having it be translated and used in an artificial intelligence system was masterfully conveyed.
-The challenge of having cities and towns dependent on parking violations revenue find other sources of revenue to replace lost revenue.

There were many more discussions that wove together the technological, regulatory, economic and social challenges of transitioning to autonomous vehicles. I particularly liked his discussion of the EU's Global Data Protection Regulations and the degree to which they will inhibit the data collection that any artificial intelligence system, including the one that operates with autonomous vehicles, needs to learn and improve itself.

The one subject that might have been covered in more depth is the degree to which AVs will depend on curbside communications infrastructure that has fragmented ownership and leasehold rights, obsolete rules on who can connect to a utility pole, and the potential for municipalities to overcharge those who want to build out 5G infrastructure on municipally-owned poles. However, that is a minor omission in an otherwise outstanding book.

This is the kind of book that has been written so thoughtfully that I expect to be an exceptionally useful resource 20 years from now.

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Every Elected City and County official Should Read this Book

Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2019

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As a former Mayoral candidate for one of the top 20 largest cities in America, I couldn’t help but to think about our elected officials and how every one of them should read this book to better equip themselves with the hard decisions they are going to need to make in their term. Politicians are rarely experts in urban planning and street engineering. They do however, need to be educated enough to not be hoodwinked by lobbyists and special interest groups that lull them into thinking they are doing something right for their city which, in the long run, causes harm. “No One at the Wheel” is a book that can educate them to prevent gullibility from leading their decisions.

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nadrad

Interesting, but not fulfilling

Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2019

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Written at the level of local newspaper. He covers interesting topics, but he bounces around and repeats himself many, many times. I was disappointed he didn't go into greater depth on the technology and how it works. He also does not take into consideration at all that there are many people who actually love to drive a car and will not want to ever let the computer do ALL of the driving.

Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2018

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Not very enjoyable. Gives extensive history of prior decades automobile facts which don’t ever feel very relevant to today’s autonomous vehicles. He makes definitive statements like ‘AV will clearly create more cars on the road and more congestion’. I’m not saying I agree or disagree but maybe that conclusion should have come after an entire chapter of discussions instead of just throwing it in blindly and factually in chapters 1-3.

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Interesting read

Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2019

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anonymous

Toller Überblick über die Geschichte und mögliche Zukunft des Verkehrs

Reviewed in Germany on October 26, 2019

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Der Autor war Verkehrsplaner für New York und hat ein unergründliches Hintergrundwissen über die Geschichte, Gegenwart und mögliche Zukunft des Verkehrs. Er zeigt auf, wie sich seit ca. 1900 das Auto als dominierendes Fahrzeug durchgesetzt hat und damit alle anderen Verkehrsoptionen systematisch verdrängt hat.
Unser Leben, Wohnen, einfach alles wurde so strukturiert, dass es für PKWs optimal ist, und für andere Verkehrsoptionen daher nicht so toll. Er zeigt aber auch mögliche Alternativen wie z.B. PKW-freie Zonen und PKW-freien Städte, die zu mehr Lebensqualität führen wo immer sie eingeführt werden.

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