Autonomy. Lawrence Burns

      

      

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2018

      First published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2018

      First published in the United States in 2018 by Ecco

      Copyright © Lawrence D. Burns, 2018

      Lawrence Burns asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN: 9780008302108

      Ebook Edition © October 2016 ISBN: 9780008302085

      Version: 2019-07-23

       Praise for Autonomy

      ‘If you want a glimpse of how the future is being engineered today, there is no better book’

      JEFFREY SACHS, author of The End of Poverty

      ‘An entertaining and accessible account of the biggest disruption in the history of the auto industry, and indeed the entire transportation industry’

      RICK WAGONER, former chairman and chief executive officer, General Motors

      ‘An insider’s view into the thrilling who-will-win-it race to invent and control driverless cars – and the radically altered future that will follow in their wake’

      ROBIN CHASE, cofounder, Zipcar, and author of Peers Inc

      ‘A rich and entertaining insider’s account … required reading for anyone interested in the future of mobility’

      ROGER MARTIN, co-author of Playing to Win

      ‘Tells the remarkable story of innovators who are changing transportation as we know it’

      CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma

      ‘Takes us inside the auto industry as it is today – and what may be a very different industry tomorrow’

      DANIEL YERGIN, author of The Prize and The Quest

      ‘Essential reading’

       The Times

       Dedication

      To engineers, who make what’s possible real

       Epigraph

      One new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.

       —Thomas Jefferson

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Praise for Autonomy

Dedication

Epigraph

Introduction: The Problem with Cars

PART I: THE TURNING POINT

Chapter One: DARPA’s Grand Challenge

Chapter Two: A Second Chance

       Chapter Three: History Happens in Victorville

       PART II: THE NEW DNA OF THE AUTOMOBILE

       Chapter Four: A Fish Out of Water

       Chapter Five: Epiphanies

       Chapter Six: Close Only Counts in Horseshoes

       PART III: THE AGE OF AUTOMOBILITY

       Chapter Seven: The 101,000-Mile Challenge

       Chapter Eight: The Seeds of Change

       Chapter Nine: The $4 Trillion Disruption

       PART IV: THE TIPPING POINT

       Chapter Ten: The Stampede

       Chapter Eleven: Driving Opportunity