Car Transportation

From trolleys and wagons to cars and spaceships, transportation has changed over the years. Descriptive text gives listeners a peek into the ways we used to get around.

Take a look at the vehicle sitting in your driveway. It may be the last one you ever own. With an estimated 33 million fully autonomous cars and taxis projected to hit the road by 2040, an automotive renaissance is soon to be upon us. Personal car ownership currently costs the average sedan owner $9,000 annually. But car ownership may soon be a thing of the past.

Oh dear ... we're back looking at more car books then, are we? I get it, it's okay. You're a car fan like me. Cars are important to you I suspect, they really matter to you. It says a lot about you, and the choice of car that you make ... well perhaps you think that it even defines you a little. Maybe a lot. It's that important, because it might affect how others think about you. Can that really be true? Well, let's see as we take a little journey through some of the more common brands of car ....

Der weltberühmte Rennwagen Lightning McQueen liebt sein Leben auf der Rennstrecke, in dem er gegen seine lebenslangen Freunde und Kollegen antritt. Doch eine neue Ära bricht an, als eines Tages McQueen und seine Freunde vom neuen Hightech-Rennwagen Jackson Storm abgehängt werden. Einer nach dem anderen werden die alten Rennwagen von McQueens Generation durch neue Supercars mit neuen Trainingsmethoden ersetzt. Aber Lightning weigert sich, seine Karriere aufzugeben - er will immer noch Rennen fahren! Und er will gewinnen.

Dream Car tells the story of entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin’s fantastical 1970s-era Safety Vehicle-1 (SV1), audaciously launched during a tumultuous breakpoint in postwar history. The tale of the sexy-yet-safe SV1 reveals the influence of automobiles on ideas about the future, technology, entrepreneurship, risk, safety, showmanship, politics, sex, gender, business, and the state, as well as the history of the auto industry’s birth, decline, and rebirth.

Alex Davies tells the “illuminating and important narrative” (Steven Levy, author of Facebook: The Inside Story) of the quest to develop driverless cars—and the fierce competition between Google, Uber, and other companies in a race to revolutionize our lives. The self-driving car has been...

Кто из нас не был свидетелем ситуации, когда полное сил и энергии чадо виснет на своем уставшем после напряженного рабочего дня родителе и в буквальном смысле слова засыпает его вопросами: Почему? Отчего? Зачем? Причем тема этих "почемучеств" может быть диаметрально противоположной.

Life on the road with Daddy is as good as gets for Hazmat. Together, they’ve been taking jobs and crisscrossing the US for years. Now Daddy’s talking about putting down roots—somewhere Hazmat can go to a real school and make friends. Somewhere Daddy doesn’t have to mail-order textbooks about “nature’s promise to all women.” Somewhere Mom’s ashes can rest on a mantel and not on a dashboard. While everything just keeps changing, sometimes in ways she can’t control, Hazmat isn’t ready to give up the freedom of long-distance hauling.

On corporately controlled Castra, rally racing is a high-stakes game that 17-year-old Phoebe Van Zant knows all too well. Phee's legendary racer father disappeared mysteriously, but that hasn't stopped her from speeding headlong into trouble. When she and her best friend, Bear, attract the attention of Charles Benroyal, they are blackmailed into racing for Benroyal Corp, a company that represents everything Phee detests. Worse, Phee risks losing Bear as she falls for Cash, her charming new teammate.

Wil Carter is an 18-year-old know-it-all who thinks he can figure out the world’s problems with a snap of his finger, all while living his best life marching to the beat of his own drum. And just as his self-focused world barrels forward, it all falls apart when he’s asked to take a road trip with his less party-enthusiastic 95-year-old grandfather. Wil knows all too well that when Gramps Wilf barks an order, you either get in line or suffer the consequences of an earful of grief.

A penetrating look at near-future disruption as truly autonomous vehicles arrive.

Hier ist mächtig was los: Die Kinder Toni, Abena, Kojo und Lenny sind hautnah dabei, wenn die Feuerwehr eine brennende Mülltonne löscht, Tonis Katze aus einem Baum rettet und ein Hornissennest umsiedelt. Als Hobby-Detektive stellen die Kinder ihren Spürsinn unter Beweis und helfen bei einer Suchaktion der Polizei. Auch im Fußballstadion und am Badesee schauen sie mutigen Einsatzkräften über die Schulter. Jede der 15 abgeschlossenen Geschichten bietet kleine Häppchen Sachwissen.

Do you love cars? Do you love interesting stories about start-ups? Do you love crazy stories about founders and their ups and downs? This book, and the books in this series, are for you.

Self-driving cars sound fantastical and futuristic, and yet they'll soon be on every street in America. Whether it's Tesla's Autopilot, Google's Waymo, Mercedes' Distronic, or Uber's modified Volvos, companies around the world are developing autonomous cars. But why? And what will they mean for the auto industry and humanity at large? In Robot, Take the Wheel, famed automotive expert Jason Torchinsky gives a colorful account of the development of autonomous vehicles and their likely implications.

Lynet McQueen er en superhurtig racerbil med fuld fart på karrieren. Han er på vej til Californien for at stille op i et vigtigt racerløb, men undervejs kommer han ud på et sidespor og strander i den lille, søvnige by Kølerkildekøbing, hvor livet går i tomgang. Spænd sikkerhedsselen og ræs med Lynet McQueen og hans venner fra Kølerkildekøbing på hæsblæsende eventyr!

Start with an exciting factual fiction story about an electric car named Ollie who learns to be proud of his differences, and makes new friends along the way! Then listen to it for a nonfiction exploration of real-life electric cars.

Do you love cars? Do you love interesting stories about start-ups? Do you love crazy stories about founders and their ups and downs? This book, and the books in this series, are for you.

Repair or Replace my Car - The Smart Financial Guide to Your Car’s Future is an essential roadmap to making the best decision for your budget and lifestyle.

Electric cars are different than most cars because you have to plug them in to make them go.

Kranvognen Bumle har altid en utrolig historie klar til sine venner, og han fortæller om mange fantastiske ting! Vennerne undrer sig over, om Bumles historier mon virkelig kan være sande. Har Bumle været på månen? Har han været monstertruck? Har han kørt ræs i Tokyos gader eller reddet et rumvæsen? Selv Lynet McQueen, der er Bumles bedste ven, ved ikke helt, hvad han skal tro – og han er endda selv med i alle historierne!