![]() And yet the inaccuracy of the designation is precisely why I find it so fitting, seeing as all new terms in the industry are either meaningless or inaccurate (see: “partial self-driving” and “autopilot”). The motley collection of nonfiction titles covers far more than autonomy. It should be noted that “AV books” is not only a bad name but an inaccurate one. Sure, autonomous vehicle books have flaws, but unlike much of the underlying artificial intelligence of these chimerical vehicles, the books at least improve with every update. Reading the genre these past few years has been like witnessing a coming-of-age story-the first titles, though terrific introductions, are too enfeebled by nostalgia to seriously challenge the industry in adolescence, the genre sizes up its foe the emergent third-wave witnesses a heroic, cathartic breakthrough. Sure, AV books have flaws, but unlike much of the underlying artificial intelligence of these chimerical vehicles, the books at least improve with every update. Listening to AV company founders on podcasts and at conferences will only teach you how soon they have a funding round coming up. Reading AV Twitter will only teach you to blame misleading headlines on journalists as opposed to the companies that create misleading timelines for their misleadingly named technologies. I have become obsessed with these AV books, in part because the “coverage” of the undertaking is so unappealing. They no doubt procrastinated, often severely, and still, still they beat the wunderkind roboticists of the autonomous vehicle (AV) realm to the marketplace. As massive companies like Volvo, General Motors, Tesla, and others spent the 2010s missing preposterously optimistic release dates for their driverless prototypes, writers conducted research and interviews. Book-length analysis has sped past tech-sector hype. For what feels like the first time in the twenty-first century, prose has outrun product. In the past half decade, a small publishing miracle has taken place: many books about driverless cars are available for purchase, whereas driverless cars are not.
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