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This eBook first published in Great Britain in 2018 by William Collins
Copyright © Lawrnce D. Burns 2018
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Source ISBN: 9780008302061
Ebook Edition © October 2016 ISBN: 9780008302085
Version: 2018-07-26
To engineers, who make what’s possible real
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
Introduction: The Problem with Cars
Chapter One: DARPA’s Grand Challenge
Chapter Three: History Happens in Victorville
PART II: THE NEW DNA OF THE AUTOMOBILE
Chapter Four: A Fish Out of Water
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
Chapter Eleven: Driving Opportunity
