Self-Driving Steamrollers: Your Guide to a Future Featuring Autonomous Cars You May Never Buy
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (572 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01D6L4YQK |
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| Number of Pages | : | 147 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Don’t wait for our near future to hit you like a driverless truck with a faulty collision sensor. It also explores what is at stake and how much might be lost for those that don't look ahead."Self-Driving Steamrollers" is must read for both teens and adults. Your world will soon change and this book is an entertaining introduction to help you prepare.Using easy narrative, humor, anecdotes, his business experience, and Futurist's vision, Higgins makes a compelling forecast that the age of driverless cars will be upon us and revolutionizing our world more rapidly and more drastically than most people realize. It’s not a future you should await passively! “Self-Driving Steamrollers” lays out the benefits people and companies stand to reap by planning for the
He's fascinated by the changes technology will introduce into our very near future. About the Author Kevin Higgins is a father, has been an Infantryman (US Army), and was the founder of PayByCash (at one time a global payment processor before it got acquired by a major company). Kevin is the grandson of the late Leslie Charteris, creator of "The Saint." . He thinks of himself as a Futurist, a Writer, and a medium-performance driver of high-performance cars. He's worked as a LAN Systems Analyst and worked in the massively multiplayer online gaming industry
Wanted: one editor John L. This could be a great book. I'll never know, because I couldn't get past the first 7 pages. This was self-published without the help of an editor. On page 6, making the point that I think I'm the best driver and everyone else sucks: "Not us of course. Just all the other humans. You and me, we're the rare exceptions who are competent whenever we slip behind the wheel and for the entire time we're piloting a car. We're never distracted. We never split our concentration bet. Jorleif Joensen said Change is coming much faster than expected. This book list a lot of scenarios, which give a good understanding of the change the selfdriving car will generate for many businesses and domains. It is a must read for anybody who is interested in the future. Very good book which I can recommend. Read it and prepare for the future !
Kevin Higgins is a father, has been an Infantryman (US Army), and was the founder of PayByCash (at one time a global payment processor before it got acquired by a major company). Kevin is the grandson of the late Leslie Charteris, creator of "The Saint." . He thinks of himself as a Futurist, a Writer,