Are we there yet? : the American automobile, past, present, and driverless / Dan Albert.
Are we there yet? : the American automobile, past, present, and driverless / Dan Albert.
Are we there yet? : the American automobile, past, present, and driverless / Dan Albert.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Call Numbers
G 2019/3271
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
viii, 389 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
The 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 Bu...
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Publisher
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2019]
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Summary
"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...
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Are we there yet? : the American automobile, past, present, and driverless / Dan Albert.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2019/3271
Record Identifier
74VKVxjXPyeX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVxjXPyeX
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ISBN
0393292746 hardcover
9780393292749 hardcover
DDC
303.48320973
MMS ID
991024249803202626
