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How Autonomous Vehicles Will Change the World

Why Self-Driving Car Technology Will Usher in a New Age of Prosperity and Disruption. Robot Automation, Musk, Bezos & the Electric Revolution of the Future

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How Autonomous Vehicles Will Change the World

By: Anthony Raymond
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Would you like to know how you'll be getting around town, playing, and working in the future?

At the 2017 World Government Summit, Tesla founder Elon Musk proclaimed: "In 10 years, it will be very unusual for cars to be built that are not fully autonomous."

Take a look at the vehicle sitting in your driveway. It may be the last one you ever own. With an estimated 33 million fully autonomous cars and taxis projected to hit the road by 2040, an automotive renaissance is soon to be upon us. Personal car ownership currently costs the average sedan owner $9,000 annually. But car ownership may soon be a thing of the past.

Autonomous vehicles will be the most disruptive technology ever deployed by mankind.

  • They'll change the way we eat, cook, and shop.
  • They'll change the way we raise our children and the way we choose our spouses.
  • They'll change the way we display our wealth and status.
  • They'll change the way we build cities and design our homes.
  • They'll change the way we dispense charity and the way we think about work.
  • And, most importantly, they'll change the way that we think about each other and the way we see ourselves.

Since 1900, 3.7 million Americans have died in motor vehicle accidents (about 35,000 per year). But we will soon exit these "dark ages" of transportation. Thanks to several recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, we are about to usher in a new age - one in which auto collisions, traffic jams, and road fatalities almost never happen.

Soon, autonomous vehicles (of all shapes and sizes) will roam the city streets - delivering your pizza, dropping off your latest order from Amazon, and safely driving your children to school - under the watchful guidance of a dozen digital sensors.

We're about to embark on a fantastic voyage. A journey that will bring about a new age of technological enlightenment, with the potential to produce a world of great abundance - if we can avoid screwing it all up. In this book, we'll talk about the many potholes that lie on the road to the future. And we'll discuss how you can be economically prepared for the transportation revolution that is currently underway.

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A very good, balanced analysis of an issue that we will confront soon enough. My only disappointment was his view that flying cars will probably not figure so greatly in the future. I think there will be a greater role for them in transportation infrastructure that the author believes, even if there may not be a lot of personal ownership. (And I hope he’s wrong … because I want one). Nice when an author reads his own work so we’ll too.

Thought provoking.

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Definitely an enjoyable listed, our world will change so much over the next decade, interesting times!

Enjoyable book, thought provoking.

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I thoroughly enjoyed this vision of the not so distant future. Much of it was listened to while driving down a two lane highway from Sydney to Melbourne, occasionally having to navigate my way around erratic truck driving, cars crawling along in the overtaking lane, and other human unpredictability.

When I tell family and friends about the book I've listened to, I'm struck at how constrained their imaginations are and ability to foresee the possible future with present day technology truly is.

The chapters of this book lay out the domino effect once autonomous vehicles become ubiquitous. And it all seems logical.

It occurs to me, after listening to other books recently, like Lori Garver’s Escaping Gravity, how vested interest groups and the political sway that they wield can slow, even halt the wheels of progress. A case in point would be the electric vehicle itself. The technology has been toyed with for decades, but only now is it beginning to see mass adoption. Perhaps that's a key takeaway from this book. Old ways of thinking will give way to fresher and more optimistic outlooks with the passing of generations.

I’m reminded of a line from a sci fi classic, though perhaps not in the same context. “You hear that Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability.”

There is plenty of food for thought here, and I’ll certainly replay it a few more times before moving onto to another book. Chapters 10 and 11 really bring it all home for me, making it a wholly compelling listen.

The future is inevitable.

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Some over labored points, especially at the more speculative end. Regardless, there are some interesting insights here, including a few nuggets that will even interest those that have contemplated the topic before. I found Chapter 10, exploring possible societal impacts, most interesting.

some interesting insights

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