p class="MsoNormal">“One of my favorite guests on the Tonight Show was an astronaut named Story Musgrave. Although not as famous as Neil Armstrong or Buzz Aldrin, Story was not only an astronaut, he was also a physicist, an academic, and a philosopher. He could translate space travel into words and pictures that people could really understand. I like to think of Jason as my automotive astronaut, able to take his experiences and really make the reader feel like they are riding along with him. Jason is a unique blend of dork, car guy, and intellectual all rolled into one.” —Jay Leno, host of Jay Leno’s Garage and former host of the Tonight Show with Jay Leno

“Everything you wanted to know about autonomous vehicles but were afraid to ask. This delightfully written book by the longtime Jalopnik contributor is an essential guide to how driverless vehicles work—and how they have the potential to dramatically reshape society.” —Curbed

“An interesting and light hearted look at what the future of autonomous vehicles might be like.” —The Gearhead Project

“As car manufacturers and other companies race to develop autonomous vehicles, the need for a sherpa in the potential robot uprising is more pressing than ever. Torchinsky is that sherpa.” —Book & Film Globe

“Robot, Take The Wheel is an entertaining yet serious examination of what automation is and how it applies to our favorite pastime: driving.” —Automoblog

“It’s a great book. I encourage you to check it out.” —In Wheel Time

“Jason Torchinsky’s *Robot, Take the Wheel *tops our list of must-read books for anyone interested in autonomous vehicles.” —Ground Truth podcast

Vorwort

Mainstream media targets will include tech, automotive, general interest, news, and lifestyle, print and digital publications, podcast, radio, and TV outlets (author is a pro on camera) with options for excerpts and interviews. Targets to include outlets such as Wired, Forbes, Inc., The Atlantic, HowStuffWorks, Car & Driver Magazine, GQ, NPR’s Short Wave, BuzzFeed, and much more. Local media in author’s home state of North Carolina to include Chapel Hill Magazine, The Charlotte Observer, Winston-Salem Journal, The News & Observer, News & Record, The Fayetteville Observer, Star-News, Asheville Citizen Times, The Herald-Sun, and High Point Enterprise. Trade media outreach will target Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Library Journal, ALA Booklist, and Shelf Awareness. Holiday gift lists: Releasing in the fall, in advance of the holidays, Robot, Take the Wheel is an affordable gift for all car lovers. It will be pitched for gift roundup lists and is perfect for gift ideas tables in stores. Promotion through Jalopnik, The Autopian, and author’s direct social media followers: Marketing to Jalopnik’s audience of 100,000 monthly unique viewers, 426,000 Facebook followers, and 323,000 Twitter followers; the followers of the author’s new website, The Autopian, which in its first few weeks has shot to 5,000 Twitter followers, 7,000 Instagram followers, and has high reader interaction and traffic on the website; the author’s 17,000 Twitter followers; and the millions of fans of his YouTube videos.

Autorentext

Jason Torchinsky is the senior editor of Jalopnik, a cutting-edge news and opinion website about cars and technology, and has written for a wealth of other publications such as Boing Boing, Make, and Mother Jones. Torchinsky is a producer of Jay Leno's Garage, which he's guest starred on, and the star of his own show, Jason Drives, which features Torchinsky driving obscure cars and has had millions of views on social media. Torchinsky is also a stand-up comedian, an artist whose work has exhibited around the world, and the coauthor of Ad Nauseam. Torchinsky lives in Chapel Hill, NC.

Beau Boeckmann is president and COO of Galpin Motors, America's most recognized Dealership Group and home of the #1 Volume Ford Dealer in the World. In 2006 Boeckmann founded Galpin Auto Sports, which led to a starringrole and production title on the #1 rated automotive television show, Pimp My Ride. Boeckmann has been honored with several industry awards including the PetersonAutomotive Museum's first Visionary Award and was inducted into the National Rod & Custom Car Hall of Fame. Boeckmann serves as a key member of Ford Motor Company's Product Committee, Aston Martin's Dealer Advisory Panel, and the Ford Dealers Advertising Association.He lives in Los Angeles, CA.

Klappentext

From the star of the YouTube sensation Jason Drives, the senior editor of the acclaimed website Jalopnik, and a producer of Jay Leno's Garage comes the wittiest and most insightful guide yet to self-driving cars and the road ahead.

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's Distronic, or Uber's modified Volvos, companies around the world are developing autonomous cars. But why? And what will they mean for the auto industry and humanity at large?

In Robot, Take the Wheel, famed automotive expert Jason Torchinsky gives a colorful account of the development of autonomous vehicles and their likely implications. Torchinsky encourages us to think of self-driving cars as an entirely new machine, something beyond cars as we understand them today. He considers how humans will 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 they should act, ethically, how we can trick them and have fun with them, and how we can make sure there's still a place for those of us who love to drive, especially with a manual transmission.

This vibrant volume brims with insider information. It explores what's ahead and considers what we can do now to shape the automated future.

Zusammenfassung
From the star of the YouTube sensation Jason Drives, the senior editor of the acclaimed website Jalopnik, and a producer of Jay Leno's Garage comes the wittiest and most insightful guide yet to self-driving cars and the road ahead. Self-driving cars sound fantastical and futuristic and yet they'll soon be on every str

Leseprobe

This book is about the coming age of autonomous cars and is an attempt to get you to consider them as something beyond cars as we understand them today. It’s not a book about the details of the technology, because that changes so fast and so many people so much smarter than me can write those books. This book is essentially a giant thought experiment, where we’ll try and imagine what the coming of autonomous vehicles means to us, how we’ll get along with the robots that will take over our cars’ jobs, what these things will look like, what sorts of jobs they may do, what can we expect of them, how they should act, ethically, how we can have fun with them, and how those of us who love to drive, manually and laboriously, can continue to do so.

It’s probably worth pointing out just what sort of a book this will be. If you’re looking for something crammed full of the latest facts, statistics, and research about autonomous cars and their development and up-to-the-minute information about the current state-of-the art cars, this isn’t that book. If you want that, look on the internet. It gets updated far more often than books do, and you’ll be much happier. I don’t want to compete with the internet for anything like that, because I’ll lose.

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