Are We There Yet? [Book Review]
David N. Lucsko · IEEE Technology and Society Magazine · 2020
This book looks at the automobile - its past, present, and future. The reviewer found this book to be a difficult read. This has nothing to do with his style, which is smart, funny, and accessible. Nor does it involve his analysis, which is sharp, up-to-date, and informed by all the right scholarly voices from the history of technology. Indeed, had the author tackled this project from just about any other conceivable angle, I would have breezed through this review. Instead I read the book slowly, with an all-consuming sadness, and when I finished I had to let my notes sit for a while before I started to write. Instead, the book focuses on a future of the driverless automobile. This book presents a challenge to the driverless technologist’s utopian narrative of individual mobility without injury, pollution, or waste.