Robot, Take the Wheel

From the senior editor of Jalopnik, Gizmodo Media’s acclaimed website devoted to cars, the automotive industry, technology, motorcycles and more, comes a revealing look at self-driving cars, including how they will soon radically transform our lives.

Self-driving cars sound fantastical and futuristic and yet they’ll soon be on every street in America. Whether it’s Tesla’s Autopilot, Google’s Waymo, Mercedes’ Distronic, or Uber’s 24,000 modified Volvos, companies across industries and throughout the world are modeling autonomous cars. Even Apple, not to be outdone, is rumored to be developing its own technology too.

In Ride Along, Jason Torchinsky explores the state of the automotive industry, why autonomous cars are being developed, and what the future of automated cars is. Torchinsky pushes us to consider autonomous cars as an entirely new machine, something beyond cars as we understand them today. He considers how we’ll get along with these robots that will take over our cars' jobs, what they will look like, what sorts of jobs they may do, what we can expect of them, how should they act, ethically, how we can have fun with them, and how we can make sure there’s still a place for those of us who love to drive, manually and laboriously.

This unique and highly readable volume is brimming with industry insider information and destined to be a conversation starter. It’s also ripe with Torchinsky’s savviness and witty writing style, the assets responsible for his devoted following. It’s a must-have for car lovers, technology geeks, and for everyone who wants to know what’s on the road ahead.