Can I read Are we there yet? : the American automobile, past, present, and driverless on EtoBox?

Are we there yet? : the American automobile, past, present, and driverless by Daniel Albert, Anonymous is a business book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Are we there yet? : the American automobile, past, present, and driverless about?

viii, 389 pages : 25 cm "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 th

Who reads Are we there yet? : the American automobile, past, present, and driverless?

Author

Daniel Albert, Anonymous

Publisher

Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393292749

Category

business

Subjects

Social Science, Business, Social_sciences

Rating

4 / 5 (37 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14