The rest of the title is: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car. This is a book about how in early 2000s DARPA--a government defense agency, created a contest/race of sorts for developing an autonomous driven car. From there several teams competed and the researchers--engineers, computer techs, etc kept going with this concept working on this still to today. It seems there was a sort of boom cycle on this when Uber and Google were involved--putting millions of dollars into the research and sort of forcing the big 3 automakers to also be involved. The idea that if ever found a way to develop this were safe for people in car & outside of car, the autonomous driving car would take a large percentage of automobile sales numbers--which is a huge number each year. While this research hasn't hit the holy grail on this yet, the research has contributed to tech upgrades to cars and trucks. An interesting read and interesting characters in the book.
I have already posted this on PBS, it is the only copy in system so could get requested, will just have to wait & see.
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