{"product_id":"schwartz-pepper-autokill-pb","title":"Schwartz\/Pepper - Autokill, PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDriverless cars race to kill in a thriller from \"Gridlock Sam\" Schwartz, who \"knows everything about how cars and people don't get along\", with Cary Pepper (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"An expert in traffic jams has a scary idea: what if the cars turn on us? Sam Schwartz, a former New York City traffic commissioner, thinks autonomous vehicles are the future. But his book, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAutokill\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, imagines a world where they go very wrong . . . A nail biter . . .\" —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe year is 2036. CAVs (Connected Autonomous Vehicles) comprise twenty-five percent of the cars on the nation's streets and roads, fleets of robo-cabs crisscross cities, and robos are revolutionizing the country's trucking industry. With new federal regulations in the works, CAVs are about to become an even more integral part of society, which greatly concerns two people, though for vastly different reasons.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRichard Corby, a climate change scientist specializing in artificial intelligence, despairs over Congress and a pro-business president repeating the misguided decisions that put cars over people at the turn of the twentieth century. Jason Bartel―a long-haul trucker who lost both his livelihood and his wife when his best routes were taken over by robo-trucks―believes CAVs will deprive Americans of their fundamental right to drive. Both men set out to change the script. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMeanwhile, federal cybermarshal Dana Grant starts investigating the case of a CAV that blew past a stop sign and killed a woman. Blocked at every turn by her bureaucratic boss, Dana takes matters into her own hands and stumbles on a plot to use CAV technology to kill not one, but thousands of people. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFast-paced and lucid, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAutokill \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexplores themes of technology, capitalism, and politics, and is a must-read for any futuristic thriller fan. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePraise for Sam Schwartz's nonfiction examination of autonomous vehicles, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNo One Behind the Wheel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA \"clearheaded bible for the twenty-first-century road\" —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"…breathless and provocative\" —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eForeign Policy Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52991720259815,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/3397\/3991\/files\/ec868e9d2937036324f136deb8fe88324e1877b1.jpg?v=1793850288","url":"https:\/\/friendsmvl.org\/products\/schwartz-pepper-autokill-pb","provider":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}