Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car Audiobook, by Anthony M. Townsend Play Audiobook Sample

Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car Audiobook

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Read By: Peter Lerman Publisher: Highbridge Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.75 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: August 2020 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781684579334

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

16

Longest Chapter Length:

57:49 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

10:25 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

35:24 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

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Publisher Description

A penetrating look at near-future disruption as truly autonomous vehicles arrive.

For decades we have dreamed of building an automobile that can drive itself. But as that dream of autonomy draws close, we are discovering that the driverless car is a red herring. When self-driving technology infects buses, bikes, delivery vans, and even buildings . . . a wild, woollier, future awaits.

Technology will transform life behind the wheel into a high-def video game that makes our ride safer, smoother, and more efficient. Meanwhile, autonomous vehicles will turbocharge our appetite for the instant delivery of goods, making the future as much about moving things as it is about moving people. Giant corporations will link the automated machines that move us to the cloud, raising concerns about mobility monopolies and privatization of streets and sidewalks. The pace of our daily lives and the fabric of our cities and towns will change dramatically as automated vehicles reprogram the way we work, shop, and play.

Ghost Road is both a beacon and a warning; it explains where we might be headed together in driverless vehicles, and the choices we must make as societies and individuals to shape that future.

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  • Overall Performance: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5 Narration Rating: 5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5 Story Rating: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5

    " some of the material is a little dated. but that is due to the fast pace the industry is changing. informative as to how the author believes human nature can impact change in the transportation / computer industry. "

    — SW, 1/31/2021

About Anthony M. Townsend

Anthony M. Townsend is the author of Ghost Road and Smart Cities, and the president and founder of Star City Group, a strategic foresight and urban planning studio. He lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.

About Peter Lerman

Peter Lerman is originally from New York City where, coincidentally, these stories are set.  Peter has narrated over 150 audiobooks and has won an AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award® in 2020 for one of them.  His specialty is nonfiction—biography, history, government and politics, business, science, medicine, and technology.  In 2023 Peter recorded the first audiobook production of Upton Sinclair’s Boston: the Documentary Novel of Sacco and Vanzetti.