Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century by William J. Mitchell, Chris E. Borroni-Bird, Lawrence D. Burns (Hardcover, 2010)
This book provides a long-overdue vision for a new automobile era. The cars we drive today follow the same underlying design principles as the Model Ts of a hundred years ago and the tail-finned sedans of fifty years ago. In the twenty-first century, cars are still made for twentieth-century purposes. They are inefficient for providing personal mobility within cities -- where most of the world's people now live. In this pathbreaking book, William Mitchell and two industry experts reimagine the automobile, describing vehicles of the near future that are green, smart, connected, and fun to drive. They roll out four big ideas that will make this both feasible and timely. The fundamental reinvention of the automobile won't be easy, but it is an urgent necessity -- to make urban mobility more convenient and sustainable, to make cities more livable, and to help bring the automobile industry out of crisis.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
ISBN-13
9780262013826
eBay Product ID (ePID)
104744341
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Mechanical Engineering
Author
William J. Mitchell, Chris E. Borroni-Bird, Lawrence D. Burns
Publication Name
Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Business
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
203mm
Item Width
203mm
Item Weight
817g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Chris E. Borroni-Bird, William J. Mitchell, Lawrence D. Burns