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- The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless
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Crusades against the automobile are nothing new. Its arrival sparked battles over street space, pitting the masses against the millionaires who terrorized pedestrians. When the masses got cars of their own, they learned to love driving, too. During World War II, Washington nationalized Detroit and postwar Americans embraced car and country as if they were one. Then came 1960s environmentalism and the energy crises of the 1970s. Many predicted, even welcomed, the death of the automobile. But many more rose to its defense. They embraced trucker culture and took to Citizen Band radios, demanding enough gas to keep their big boats afloat. Since the 1980s, the car culture has triumphed and we now drive more miles than ever before.
Have we reached the end of the road this time? Fewer young people are learning to drive. Ride hailing is replacing car buying, and with electrification a long and noble tradition of amateur car repair - to say nothing of the visceral sound of gasoline exploding inside a big V8 - will come to an end. When a robot takes over the driver's seat, what's to become of us?
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- De CKerb en 11-09-21
De: Tom Standage
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Drive!
- Henry Ford, George Selden, and the Race to Invent the Auto Age
- De: Lawrence Goldstone
- Narrado por: Christopher Price
- Duración: 13 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
From the acclaimed author of Birdmen comes a revelatory new history of the birth of the automobile - an illuminating and entertaining true tale of invention, competition, and the visionaries, hustlers, and swindlers who came together to transform the world. With a narrative as propulsive as its subject, Drive! plunges us headlong into a time unlike any in history, when manic innovation and consumerist zeal coalesced to forever change the way people got from one place to another.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Ford Detractor.
- De Eric Johnston en 08-15-22
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Car Wars
- The Rise, the Fall, and the Resurgence of the Electric Car
- De: John Fialka
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
The resurgence of the electric car in modern life is a tale of adventurers, men and women who bucked the complete dominance of the fossil-fueled car to seek something cleaner, simpler and cheaper. Award-winning former Wall Street Journal reporter John Fialka documents the early days of the electric car, from the MIT/Caltech race between prototypes in the summer of 1968 to the 1987 victory of the Sunraycer in the world's first race featuring solar-powered cars.
De: John Fialka
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Fins
- Harley Earl, the Rise of General Motors, and the Glory Days of Detroit
- De: William Knoedelseder
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 97
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 97
This audiobook chronicles the birth and rise to greatness of the American auto industry through the life of Harley Earl, an eccentric six-foot-five, stuttering visionary who dropped out of college and went on to invent the profession of automobile styling, thereby revolutionized the way cars were made, marketed, and even imagined. Harleys Earl’s story qualifies as a bona fide American family saga. It began in the Michigan pine forest in the years after the Civil War, traveled across the Great Plains on the wheels of a covered wagon, and eventually settled in Hollywood, California.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great report of amazing history but could do without the WOKE lean..
- De joshua Shaw en 07-02-22
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Autonomy
- The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—and How It Will Reshape Our World
- De: Lawrence D. Burns, Christopher Shulgan
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 269
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 237
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 236
In Autonomy, former GM executive and current advisor to the Google Self-Driving Car project Lawrence Burns offers a sweeping history of the race to make the driverless car a reality. In the past decade, Silicon Valley companies like Google, Tesla and Uber have positioned themselves to revolutionize the way we move around by developing driverless vehicles while traditional auto companies like General Motors, Ford, and Daimler have been fighting back by partnering by with new tech start-ups.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Easy listen, non-technical perspective
- De James S. en 09-14-18
De: Lawrence D. Burns, y otros
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The Yugo
- The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History
- De: Jason Vuic
- Narrado por: Erik Synnestvedt
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 544
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 350
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 355
Six months after its American introduction in 1985, the Yugo was a punch line; within a year, it was a staple of late-night comedy. By 2000, NPR's Car Talk declared it "the worst car of the millennium." And for most Americans that's where the story begins and ends. Hardly. The short, unhappy life of the car, the men who built it, the men who imported it, and the decade that embraced and discarded it is rollicking and astounding, and it is one of the greatest untold business-cum-morality tales of the 1980s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Better Than The Car!
- De Chris Reich en 08-25-10
De: Jason Vuic
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Ingenious
- A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America
- De: Jason Fagone
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 34
In 2007, the X Prize Foundation announced that it would give $10 million to anyone who could build a safe, mass-producible car that could travel one hundred miles on the energy equivalent of a gallon of gas. The challenge attracted more than one hundred teams from all over the world, including dozens of amateurs. Many designed their cars entirely from scratch, rejecting decades of thinking about what a car should look like.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels.
- De Shamu from New York en 12-07-13
De: Jason Fagone
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The Big Roads
- The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways
- De: Earl Swift
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 170
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 151
From author Earl Swift comes the surprising history of the U.S. interstate system, a fascinating route through the dreams, discoveries, and protests that shaped these mighty roads.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Lessons from The Big Roads
- De Joshua Kim en 05-06-12
De: Earl Swift
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Street Smart
- The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars
- De: Samuel I. Schwartz, William Rosen - contributor
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 116
With wit and sharp insight, former Traffic Commissioner of New York City, Sam Schwartz a.k.a. "Gridlock Sam", one of the most respected transportation engineers in the world and consummate insider in NYC political circles, uncovers how American cities became so beholden to cars and why the current shift away from that trend will forever alter America's urban landscapes, marking nothing short of a revolution in how we get from place to place.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting, thought provoking, and hopeful
- De JKuster en 03-07-20
De: Samuel I. Schwartz, y otros
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Land Rover
- The Story of the Car That Conquered the World
- De: Ben Fogle
- Narrado por: Rupert Farley
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
As quintessentially British as a plate of fish and chips or a British bulldog, the boxy, utilitarian Land Rover Defender has become an iconic part of what it is to be British. It is said that for more than half the world's population, the first car they ever saw was a Land Rover Defender. It mirrors many of our national traits, stiff upper-lipped and slightly eccentric.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing! Great sub-stories
- De Daniel Caballero en 04-30-24
De: Ben Fogle
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Divided Highways
- Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life
- De: Tom Lewis
- Narrado por: Jim D. Johnston
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
In Divided Highways, Tom Lewis offers an encompassing account of highway development in the United States. In the early twentieth century Congress created the Bureau of Public Roads to improve roads and the lives of rural Americans. The Bureau was the forerunner of the Interstate Highway System of 1956, which promoted a technocratic approach to modern road building sometimes at the expense of individual lives, regional characteristics, and the landscape.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Lots of interesting facts. Poor narration
- De Richard en 06-01-21
De: Tom Lewis
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Green Metropolis
- What the City Can Teach the Country About True Sustainability
- De: David Owen
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 49
In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest community in the United States is not Portland, Oregon, or Snowmass, Colorado, but New York City.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A stupid and dangerously short sighted view
- De Gare&Sophia en 11-13-12
De: David Owen
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Faster, Higher, Farther
- The Volkswagen Scandal
- De: Jack Ewing
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 229
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 189
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 191
A shocking exposé of Volkswagen's fraud by the New York Times reporter who covered the scandal. In mid-2015 Volkswagen proudly reached its goal of surpassing Toyota as the world's largest automaker. A few months later, the EPA disclosed that Volkswagen had installed software in 11 million cars that deceived emissions-testing mechanisms. By early 2017 VW had settled with American regulators and car owners for $20 billion, with additional lawsuits still looming.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent recap of VW, its structure and culture
- De Northern IN Mark en 05-27-17
De: Jack Ewing
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Let’s Ride
- Sonny Barger’s Guide to Motorcycling How to Ride the Right Way - for Life
- De: Sonny Barger, Darwin Holmstrom - contributor
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 120
Hailed as the new essential resource for bikers, Let's Ride is today's most entertaining and authoritative guide to mastering the art of motorcycling. From choosing the right bike and keeping it finely maintained to sharpening riding techniques and achieving top performance, legendary biker icon Sonny Barger mines his lifetime of experience to provide advice, wisdom, wit, and never-before-told stories that will help fellow riders - new and veteran alike - survive the challenges of the road.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Forrest Gump narrator
- De guillermo en 03-09-22
De: Sonny Barger, y otros
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The Road Taken
- The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
- De: Henry Petroski
- Narrado por: Michael Butler Murray
- Duración: 10 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 45
Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling. The American Society of Civil Engineers has, in its latest report, given American roads and bridges a grade of D and C+, respectively, and has described roughly 65,000 bridges in the United States as 'structurally deficient'. This crisis - and one need look no further than the I-35W bridge collapse in Minnesota to see that it is indeed a crisis - shows little sign of abating short of a massive change in attitude amongst politicians and the American public.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well put
- De Lawrence en 08-10-17
De: Henry Petroski
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I Invented the Modern Age
- The Rise of Henry Ford and the Most Important Car Ever Made
- De: Richard Snow
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 724
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 629
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 624
In many ways, Henry Ford's story is well-known; in many more ways, it is not. Richard Snow masterfully weaves together a fascinating narrative of Ford's rise to fame through his greatest invention, the Model T. A highly pleasurable listen, filled with scenes and incidents from Ford's life, I Invented the Modern Age shows Richard Snow at the height of his powers as a popular historian and reclaims from history Henry Ford, the remarkable man who, indeed, invented the modern world as we know it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Complicated Man
- De Jean en 11-23-13
De: Richard Snow
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Car Guys vs. Bean Counters
- The Battle for the Soul of American Business
- De: Bob Lutz
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 255
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 218
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 210
In 2001, General Motors hired Bob Lutz out of retirement with a mandate to save the company by making great cars again. He launched a war against penny pinching, office politics, turf wars, and risk avoidance. After declaring bankruptcy during the recession of 2008, GM is back on track thanks to its embrace of Lutz's philosophy. When Lutz got into the auto business in the early sixties, CEOs knew that if you captured the public's imagination with great cars, the money would follow.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Opinionated and one-sided
- De Michael Parks en 06-23-11
De: Bob Lutz
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Total4 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución4 out of 5 stars
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Historia4 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 06-08-21
decent story minus the wokeness sprinkled in
great story on car culture minus the irrelevant commentary on skin color. focus more on cars
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