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049 _aAlfaisal Main Library
050 4 _aHE5623
_b.A527 2019
100 1 _aAlbert, Daniel M.
_q(Daniel Marc),
_eauthor
245 1 0 _aAre we there yet? :
_bthe American automobile, past, present, and driverless /
_cDan Albert
250 _aFirst edition
260 _c©2019
264 1 _aNew York :
_bW. W. Norton & Company,
_c©2019
300 _aviii, 389 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505 0 _aThe first revolution: let's review -- The car for people who have none -- GM's sloan: we're not in Kansas anymore -- Automotive anxiety during the Great Depression -- The hidden history of the superhighways that transformed America -- Midcentury flying cars -- Foreign invaders from Sputnik to the Bug -- The automotive womb -- The energy crisis ends the Aquarian age -- Bands of citizens take on Dicky, Jerry, and Jimmy -- The un-cars that nobody loved -- Future visions of robot cars -- Think of the lives we'll save: the rhetorics of robot cars -- My car has left for college -- Kids today
520 _a"Tech giants and automakers have been teaching robots to drive. In Are We There Yet?, Dan Albert combines historical scholarship with personal narrative to explore how car culture has suffused America's DNA. The plain, old-fashioned, human-driven car built our economy, won our wars, and shaped our democratic creed as it moved us about. Driver's ed made teenagers into citizens; auto repair made boys into men. Crusades against the automobile are nothing new. Its arrival sparked battles over street space, pitting the masses against the millionaires who terrorized pedestrians. When the masses got cars of their own, they learned to love driving too. During World War II, Washington nationalized Detroit and postwar Americans embraced car and country as if they were one. Then came 1960s environmentalism and the energy crises of the 1970s. Many predicted, even welcomed, the death of the automobile. But many more rose to its defense. They embraced trucker culture and took to Citizen Band radios, demanding enough gas to keep their big boats afloat. Since the 1980s, the car culture has triumphed and we now drive more miles than ever before. Have we reached the end of the road this time? Fewer young people are learning to drive. Ride hailing is replacing car buying, and with electrification a long and noble tradition of amateur car repair--to say nothing of the visceral sound of gasoline exploding inside a big V8--will come to an end. When a robot takes over the driver's seat, what's to become of us? Are We There Yet? carries us from muddy tracks to superhighways, from horseless buggies to driverless electric vehicles. Like any good road trip, it's an adventure so fun you don't even notice how much you've learned along the way."--Provided by publisher
520 _aThe automobile built our economy, won our wars, and shaped our democratic creed as it moved us about. Driver's ed made teenagers into citizens; auto repair made boys into men. We weathered 1960s environmentalism and the energy crises of the 1970s. Since the 1980s we drive more miles than ever before. But ride hailing is replacing car buying, and with computerization and electrification the tradition of amateur car repair will come to an end. Albert questions: When a robot takes over the driver's seat, what's to become of us? -- adapted from jacket
650 0 _aAutomobiles
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States
650 0 _aAutomobiles
_zUnited States
_xHistory
650 0 _aAutomobiles
_xTechnological innovations
_zUnited States
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