Updated: 42 Primers on Driverless Car Innovation and Disruption

“Baloney” and “nonsense” captured the zeitgeist of many reactions to my early articles on the potential of Google's self-driving car program. But, that was in 2013, when many viewed driverless cars as nothing more than a high-tech dalliance by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

How times have changed! Waymo, the Alphabet company previously known as Google's Self-Driving Car project, has just launched Waymo One, the world's first commercial driverless taxi service in the Phoenix area. It will operate at full legal speeds and offer point-to-point rides across a 100 mile service area. Waymo One is, to be clear, a very, very small scale commercial service. But, it is a very big step in the evolution of the technology. Waymo also recently reported that its self-driving cars have driven more than 10 million miles autonomously (and safely) on real-world roads—and billions more in simulation.

While many technical, business, and market hurdles remain, Google’s efforts have sparked a global arms race to develop autonomous driving technology. As one auto industry executive told me:

None of us would be paying this kind of attention to autonomous driving if Google had not made the progress that it did, and scared us into believing that it might make even more.

A host of industry leaders, adjacency aspirants and new entrants in both the automotive and high technology ecosystems are now investing billions in a high-stakes race to enable (and dominate) a driverless car future.

To facilitate an ongoing discussion (and help to address search engine limitations), this post will provide an ongoing, chronological compendium of my articles on the business and societal innovation and disruption enabled by driverless cars.

1. Fasten Your Seatbelts: Google’s Driverless Car Is Worth Trillions
2. Driverless Car Ripple Effects—As Far As The Eye Can See
3. Why Driverless Cars Will Come Sooner Than You Think
4. How Google Wins
5. How Automakers Still Win
6. Will Auto Insurers Survive Their Collision with Driverless Cars?
7. Driverless Cars Are Just One of Many Looming Disruptions
8. Google Car + Uber = Killer App
9. Dispatch From 2023: Google Considers Buying 250,000 Driverless Cars From Tesla, But Buys Tesla Instead
10. Will Driverless Cars Force A Choice Between Lives And Jobs?
11. Driverless Car Safety vs. Jobs — Inevitable or False Choice?
12. Driverless Taxis Might Replace Private Cars And Public Transit
13. 5 Reasons Why Automakers Should Fear Google’s Driverless Car
14. 5 Reasons Why Mary Barra Should Rally GM To Beat Google At Driverless Cars
15. Who Wins and Who Loses in Google and Uber’s Breakup Over Driverless Taxis?
16. Driverless Taxis Will Spark Uber’s Kodak Moment
17. The Economist Provides False Comfort to Established Carmakers on Driverless Cars
18. Trillions Will Depend On Whether Driverless Cars Require Human Drivers
19. Will Nissan Follow In Kodak’s Footsteps By Rejecting Driverless Cars?
20. Google Is Millions Of Miles Ahead Of Apple In Driverless Cars
21. California Wrongly Slams the Brakes On Google’s Driverless Car
22. 5 Reasons Why Automakers Should Fear Google’s Partnership With Ford
23. The Virtuous Cycle Between Driverless Cars, Electric Vehicles And Car-Sharing Services
24. Keep Your Eye On The Prize Offered By Driverless Cars
25. 7 Ways Driverless Cars Could Fail
26. 7 Wonders of the Driverless Future
27. Is Tesla Racing Recklessly Towards Driverless Cars?
28. With Chrysler and Ford Deals, Google Continues to Think Big and Start Small On Driverless Cars
29. Singapore: The First Mover Nation for Driverless Cars
30. Uber Is Positioned To Slingshot Ahead of Google In Driverless Cars
31. Waymo Is Crushing The Field In Driverless Cars
32. Three Questions Shape the Prospects of Alphabet's Waymo
33. Chris Urmson Reflects On Challenges, No-Win Scenarios And Timing Of Driverless Cars
34. Waymo's Human Problem
35. Driverless Bus Smart Enough to Anticipate Impending Accident But Too Dumb To Get Out Of The Way
36. Waymo Built A Great Wall And Made Uber Pay For It
37. Driverless Cars: 90 Percent Done, 90 Percent Left To Go?
38. What Did Uber's Autonomous Car Know, And When Did It Know it?
39. 3 Ways the Trolley Problem Distracts from Solving the Bigger Human Driver Problem
40. 15 Hurdles to the Industrialization of Driverless Cars
41. Can Driverless Cars Scale into Industrial-Strength Businesses?
42. Can Driverless Cars Gain Market Acceptance?

Happy reading, and I'd welcome your comments.

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I write, speak and advise on the digital future. I'm the author of four books on technology and innovation. This article is updated from one originally published at Forbes.