RaveClean TechnicaIn Autonomy, Burns narrates how robotics teams have taken hundreds of thousands of steps to train self-driving cars to react to the same obstacles to which human drivers react. And the story of that technological roadtrip is fascinating—especially to those of us who have heard pieces of the autonomy story but didn’t understand the ramifications of the self-driving Big Picture ... Autonomy helps us to understand this likely future reality by taking us back to the beginning of robotic transportation research. The book, however, is not an encyclopedic compilation of dry sequential facts ... the chapters unfold as stories with a mystery genre-like tone ... The authors blend dialogue from interviews; infuse historical contexts (i.e. the importance of drone imagery from Iraq and Afghan territories); trace a cast of unlikely, contradictory, and often combative tech team characters; and, unveil a play-by-play of robot races that reads like a whodunit.
