"The Chevy Volt requires 10 million lines of code, two million more than it takes to run a Boeing 787." - Popular Science, Sept '11, p. 36
"Cars are the most thoroughly computerized machines most of us will ever buy, but unlike phones or laptops they are nearly impossible to upgrade." p.38
"Maybe...car ownership [will shift to a cellphone business] model in which drivers would get a free or highly subsidized car and sign up for a fee plan that includes fuel or access to charging stations." p 85
"Google's seven robotic cars have since logged more than 100,000 fully autonomous miles on California roads...there has only been a single accident, when a human-driven car rear-ended a robot-Prius at a light." p. 85
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