Shared, automated, electric vehicles readings I’ve enjoyed lately
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2 min readNov 20, 2018
I’ve lately been reading a lot of Future of Automotive related books and articles so I decided to share my recommendations.
Shared, automated, electric vehicles books I recommend:
- Anderson et al (2014): Autonomous Vehicle Technology: A Guide for Policymakers
- Arbib & Seba (2017): Rethinking Transportation 2020–2030: The Disruption of Transportation and the Collapse of the Internal-Combustion Vehicle and Oil Industries
- Burns (2018): Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car — And How It Will Reshape Our World
- Chin (2010): China’s Automotive Modernization: The Party-State and Multinational Corporations
- Kerrigan (2017): Life As A Passenger: How Driverless Cars Will Change The World
- Lashinsky (2017): Wild Ride: Inside Uber’s Quest for World Domination
- Levine (2016): Powerhouse, The : America, China and the Great Battery War
- Lipson & Kurman (2017): Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead
- McGrath (2018): Autonomous Vehicles: Opportunities, Strategies, and Disruptions
- Sperling (2018): Three Revolutions: Steering Automated, Shared, and Electric Vehicles to a Better Future
- Tilleman (2016): The Great Race: The Global Quest for the Car of the Future
History of automotive industry:
- Audi (2013): Four Rings: The Audi Story
- Audi (2003): A History of Progress: Chronicle of Audi AG
- BMW (2016): The BMW Century: The Ultimate Performance Machines
- Adler (2006): Daimler & Benz: The Complete History: The Birth and Evolution of the Mercedes-Benz
- Ford (2009 / 1920s): My Life and Work — An Autobiography of Henry Ford
- Iacocca (1986): An Autobiography
- Liker (2004): The Toyota Way
- Michelli (2015): Driven to Delight: Delivering World-Class Customer Experience the Mercedes-Benz Way
- Ohno (1988): Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production
- Sloan (1967): My years with General Motors
- Womack et al (2007): The Machine That Changed the World
The not so great books I’ve read on this topic:
- Eliot (2017): Self-Driving Cars:The Mother of All AI Projects: Practical Advances in Artificial Intelligence
- Jamthe (2017): 2030 The Driverless World: Business Transformation from Autonomous Vehicles
- Simoudis (2017): The Big Data Opportunity in Our Driverless Future
- Wadhwa & Salkever (2017): The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future
Some great articles:
- 46 corporations working on autonomous vehicles / CB Insights (9/2018)
- Automotive revolution — perspective towards 2030 / McKinsey (1/2016)
- Electrek: news on the transition from fossil to fuel transportation
- Measuring the Impact of an Unanticipated Disruption of Uber/Lyft in Austin, TX / Hampshire et al (2017)
- Rethinking Transportation 2020–2030 / RethinkX (2017)
- The Rise of China’s Auto Industry / Congressional Research Service (2009)
- Searching for Parking Costs Americans $73 Billion a Year / INRIX (2017)
- Transforming Personal Mobility / The Earth Institute (2013)
- Who’s winning the self-driving car race / Bloomberg (5/2018)
