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“The foundation has been laid for fully autonomous,” Elon Musk announced in 2016, when he assured the world that Tesla would have a driverless fleet on the
Autonorama
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In Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving, historian Peter Norton argues that driverless cars cannot be the safe, sustainable, and inclusive "mob
Fighting Traffic
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Pages: 409
Authors: Peter D. Norton
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-21 - Publisher: MIT Press

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The fight for the future of the city street between pedestrians, street railways, and promoters of the automobile between 1915 and 1930. Before the advent of th
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Categories: Social Science
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African Motors
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Pages: 270
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In African Motors, Joshua Grace examines how Tanzanian drivers, mechanics, and passengers reconstituted the automobile into a uniquely African form between the