Autonomy - Burns, Lawrence D; Shulgan, Christopher
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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…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
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.
Autorenporträt
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.