# The driver in the driverless car

**Author(s):** Vivek Wadhwa
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**Genres:** technology
**Pages:** 240
**Publisher:** Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated
**Published:** Sun Jan 01 2017 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9781523085538
**ISBN-10:** 1525239325
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-driver-in-the-driverless-car

## Description

Technology is advancing faster than ever--but for better or for worse? On the one hand, astonishing technology developments such as personalized genomics, self-driving cars, drones, and artificial intelligence could make our lives healthier, safer, and easier. On the other hand, these very same technologies could raise the specter of a frightening and alienating future--eugenics, a jobless economy, a complete loss of privacy, and an ever-worsening spiral of economic inequality. How can we make appropriate decisions about whether and how to adopt new technologies? Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever propose that we ask three questions: Does the technology have the potential to benefit everyone equally? What are the risks and the rewards? Does the technology more strongly promote autonomy or independence? They subject a host of new and potential technologies to these questions, but ultimately it is up to the reader to make the final decision. -- Provided by publisher.

## SageChimp reader verdict

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**Themes:** Grief, Artificial Intelligence