<b>From famed automotive journalist Jason Torchinsky comes a witty insider’s guide to self-driving cars, the automated future, and the road ahead.</b><br></br><p>Self-driving cars sound fantastical and futuristic and yet they’ll soon be on every street in America. Whether it’s Tesla’s Autopilot, Google’s Waymo, Mercedes’s Distronic, or Uber’s modified Volvo, companies around the world are developing autonomous cars. But why? And what will they mean for the auto industry and humanity at large?</p><p>In <i>Robot, Take the Wheel</i>, Torchinsky, cofounder of The Autopian and former senior editor of Jalopnik, star of <i>Jason Drives</i>, and producer of <i>Jay Leno''s Garage</i>, gives a colorful account of the development of autonomous vehicles and considers their likely implications. He encourages us to think of self-driving cars as an entirely new machine, something beyond cars as we understand them today, and considers how humans will get along