{"title":"Sam Schwartz","description":"Sam Schwartz is the founder of Sam Schwartz Engineering and Chair of the Sam Schwartz Transportation Research Program at Hunter College in New York City. He also wrote a column on traffic for the New York Daily News for over 30 years Previously, Schwartz was New York City's Traffic Commissioner and Chief Engineer of the NYC Department of Transportation. He was a cabbie in the late 1960s and joined the Traffic Department as a junior engineer in 1971.Mr. Schwartz's most recent books, No One at the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future (2018) and Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and The Fall of Cars (2015) lay out a recipe for cities faced with rapid changes in modes, automation, demographic shifts and travelers' preferences. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics at Brooklyn College and received a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a licensed Professional Engineer.Schwartz, often referred to by his nom de plume \"Gridlock Sam,\" released the word \"gridlock\" into the lexicon during the 1980 NYC Transit strike.","products":[{"product_id":"autokill-paperback","title":"Autokill - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDriverless cars race to kill in a thriller from \"Gridlock Sam\" Schwartz, who \"knows everything about how cars and people don't get along\", with Cary Pepper (\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e). \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe year is 2036. CAVs (Connected Autonomous Vehicles) comprise twenty-five percent of the cars on the nation's streets and roads, fleets of robo-cabs crisscross cities, and robos are revolutionizing the country's trucking industry. With new federal regulations in the works, CAVs are about to become an even more integral part of society, which greatly concerns two people, though for vastly different reasons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Corby, a climate change scientist specializing in artificial intelligence, despairs over Congress and a pro-business president repeating the misguided decisions that put cars over people at the turn of the twentieth century. Jason Bartel―a long-haul trucker who lost both his livelihood and his wife when his best routes were taken over by robo-trucks―believes CAVs will deprive Americans of their fundamental right to drive. Both men set out to change the script. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, federal cybermarshal Dana Grant starts investigating the case of a CAV that blew past a stop sign and killed a woman. Blocked at every turn by her bureaucratic boss, Dana takes matters into her own hands and stumbles on a plot to use CAV technology to kill not one, but thousands of people. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFast-paced and lucid, \u003ci\u003eAutokill \u003c\/i\u003eexplores themes of technology, capitalism, and politics, and is a must-read for any futuristic thriller fan. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Sam Schwartz's nonfiction examination of autonomous vehicles, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNo One Behind the Wheel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \"clearheaded bible for the twenty-first-century road\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...breathless and provocative\" --\u003ci\u003eForeign Policy Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51375384723679,"sku":"9798337208404","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/lpLreLT_I99798337208404.webp?v=1789200183"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/sam-schwartz.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}