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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
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Ebook Edition © October 2016 ISBN: 9780008302085
Version: 2019-07-23
‘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
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
