The reality of driverless cars on Main Street is still in the future, but just as the steamship, railroad, and airplane transformed the world, the autonomous vehicle will alter the way we live, work, and move. In Driven, journalist Alex Davies tells the colorful story of the quest to develop this new technology-and the fierce competition among Google, Uber, and other companies in a race that will revolutionize our lives. From the first prototypes to emerge from the "Grand Challenges" sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA, which also invented the internet) to the escalating involvement of both Silicon Valley giants and Detroit automakers determined to stay relevant, Driven shows how a previously Jetsons-like idea is becoming reality. Book jacket.