Lawrence D. Burns

Broschiertes Buch

Autonomy

Beschreibung

Autonomy is the story of the maverick engineers and computer experts who triggered the driverless car revolution. Longtime adviser to the Google self-driving car project (now Waymo) and former General Motors vice president of research, development, and planning Lawrence D. Burns provides the perfectly timed history, beginning at a 2004 off-road robot race across the Mojave Desert with a million-dollar purse and continuing through today’s stampede to develop driverless technology. Autonomy is a page-turner that represents a chronicle of the past, diagnosis of the present, and prediction of the future—the ultimate guide to understanding the driverless car and navigating the revolution it sparks.

Autor

Lawrence D. Burns served as corporate vice president of research, development and planning at General Motors, where he oversaw GM’s advanced technology and innovation programs as well as corporate strategy. He was also a professor of engineering practice at the University of Michigan and led the Program for Sustainable Mobility at Columbia University. He has served as an adviser to the Google self-driving car project (now Waymo) since 2011 and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He lives in Franklin, Michigan.

Produktdetails

• Ecco Press
• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 137mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 307g
• ISBN-13: 9780062661135
• ISBN-10: 0062661132
• Artikelnr.: 54599978

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"This is the story of one of those quests will change how we live. Burns was one of the first people to understand the massive implications of driverless cars. His involvement with the players inventing and commercializing this technology makes this book an authoritative preview of the autonomous age." John Casesa, Former Group Vice President, Global Strategy, Ford Motor Company