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Ed Niedermeyer's book on Tesla "Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors" is available for pre-order with 20^th of August release date.
If we are mentioning The Toyota Way may as well link to the excellent book
https://www.amazon.com/Toyota-Way-Management-Principles-Manufacturer/dp/0071392319/ref=nodl_
It should be noted that even Toyota is having trouble implementing the Toyota way in other nations including some Asian nations.
If anyone doesn't know:
Back in the 1920s Henry Ford, at the height of his power, thought he was untouchable. So much so that he decided to try and build a city in the heart of the Amazon. Partly to get involved in the huge industry that was rubber at the time but also to showcase his own vision of a utopia. In reality it was a disaster that lead to revolts and a big stain on Ford's reputation.
Here's a nice, shorter article about Fordlandia.
But I also recommend getting the titular book as well. Goes far in-depth with the project and Grandin does a great job never letting the story drag. This feels like the PERFECT subject for Herzog to work on.
I have read "The Toyota way" for a class for my masters degree in engineering. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071392319/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_F0GEQ8NTV0811390CMBR
What exactly is your insight that makes you so convinced that you are more knowledgeable than any random person you interact with online?
> Right now I'm about halfway through this book about the whole college admissions scandal. I can only read for 20-30 minutes at a time because pretty much everyone involved makes my blood boil.
Thanks- just used my leftover audible credit this month on that! I'm currently reading this book about Uber and it's pretty outrageous, so maybe I'll take a break in between them and read something wholesome or boring so I don't lose too much faith in humanity reading them back to back :P.
There's a whole book about that from the 2000-era SUV craze. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001GXQOM8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Soupir. Ok. Je te propose de lire. J'ai pas l'impression que c'est l'activité préférée de l'électeur conservateur moyen toutefois, mais essaye: https://www.amazon.ca/Confessions-Recovering-Civil-Engineer-Transportation/dp/1119699290/ref=asc_df_1119699290/?tag=googleshopc0c-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=459616255919&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16696851648254931926&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9000386&hvtargid=pla-1187958944116&psc=1
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Ça explique POURQUOI les propositions de Duhaime en lien avec les automobiles sont absolument totalement indiscutablement IMBÉCILES.
For anyone interested in this topic (which should be most of the people on this sub), The Box is a fascinating history of the cargo container, and really shows how and why our global economy has been shaped with the shipping we have. The TL;DR is bulk commodities transfer in the homogeneous "shipping container" makes it possible to grow the supply chain economies of scale.
Some 80% of products shipped in cargo containers are "intermediate" products, going from one manufacturing facility to another. Only 20% are finished retail goods heading to shelves!
https://smile.amazon.com/Box-Shipping-Container-Smaller-Economy/dp/0691170819
Dude. There’s probably only recreational paths here, the German suburbs are all quite walkable. These are not because the only pleasurable way to walk, without the cars going 65 kph, is by taking back roads. Also, I’m basing my argument on the data presented in Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town by Charles L. Marohn Jr..
The US suburbs need actual bike infrastructure otherwise you have to deal with walking over 30 minutes down a main stroad without any walking paths.
You're the one without a clue. The reason they died out is because they were deliberately killed off because it was more profitable for banks, the oil and auto industries not because they weren't effective.
If you don't want to believe me, maybe some civil engineers telling you how car-centric transportation sucks ass and needs to change will help.
They are the futon of Civil Engineering, Chuck Marohn Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town.
Here's a link to the 2nd edition which is $17 cheaper for some reason
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691170819/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_i_B6KYD8CQQYKRG9ACE97G
Kind of like how the gift shop has just about any in-print book you could want with a loose Ford connection, except for Pulitzer finalist Fordlandia.
I recommend checking out Confessions of a Recovering Engineer by Charles Marohn. The current, poor, dangerous designs came from the minds of engineers that were solely concerned about traffic flow. Computer simulations will never correctly replicate real-life scenarios.
Thanks for the shout-out. I have an engineering degree, but in a different field (materials). At my alma mater, CS was very high status, but it was a different kind of high status than engineering. The highest status department was still mechanical engineering. (But that's probably because I went to a dedicated engineering school, and not an "everything" university.)
> The best-of-the-best, I'm told, do not go into civil engineering any more.
Correct. Civil engineering is the lowest paid engineering discipline. It is mostly about infrastructure (roads, bridges, drainage systems), and not as much about buildings. So it attracts people who care a lot about the public policy around big, flashy infrastructure projects, versus people who just want to build cutting edge stuff for its own sake.
The elite engineers who just want to build cool stuff are out building robots and rockets, not bridges.
If you'd like a more in-depth look at the "public policy first, build stuff second" attitude in civil engineering, I'd recommend the new Strong Towns book, <em>Confessions of a Recovering Engineer.</em>
Uber is so bad that its failings became a book, then a TV show. What else do you need?
book: Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/0393652246/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_S8CDV1TC2AWPA2NEKZ8B
tv: https://time.com/6151477/super-pumped-battle-for-uber-true-story/
The enormous--and enormously profitable--light truck market was dominated by GM and Ford in the early 90s. Dodge was small fry and there were no other brands with trucks in that category specific to North America. Until Dodge introduced their next generation styled explicitly to resemble an 18 wheeler:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8vJrzLrwz0
Also, interesting "psychological profile" of typical buyers of these vehicles:
https://www.amazon.com/High-Mighty-Dangerous-Rise-SUV-ebook/dp/B001GXQOM8
(Hint: it's not edifying reading, lots of insecurity and "reptilian brain" thinking).
Strong Towns is great. They did a really good job of simplifying our problems with transportation in their recent Confessions of a Recovering Engineer book. I hope they continue to gain momentum. The fact that we're talking about them here is probably a good sign.
This isn't something people like to hear, but Jeeps and some other vehicles with high center of gravity aren't that good safety-wise. Rollover injuries (esp. bad for debilitating neck injuries), roof caving in (because of the extra weight/ballast needed to keep them for rolling over in the first place, etc.) are well-known problems with these vehicles (Consumer Reports has done good investigative work, esp. on how structurally weak roofs of these vehicles are and how companies have fought tooth and nail against stronger regulations), but you're dealing with the World's most powerful advertising industry by a long shot, so you're likely going to be surrounded in a vapor bath of BS from the "usual suspects". Here's a journalist who wrote a book on the topic, but as with so much else in this industry his warnings went unheeded:
https://www.amazon.com/High-Mighty-Dangerous-Rise-SUV-ebook/dp/B001GXQOM8
According to https://www.amazon.com/Ludicrous-Unvarnished-Story-Tesla-Motors/dp/1948836122 Musk has 3 separate PR agencies for himself and his family, I've always wondered how he gets his companies too foot the bill, or if this is just something that he pays for himself to make the whole musk brand work. I don't have the book myself, I'm just cribbing notes from the TrueAnon podcast they did that was largely based off this book. But I'm like 90% sure it was at least 3 companies mentioned.
The guy with the website is also a civil engineer with a career in road design. He wrote a whole book about some of the failings of auto-centric street design and what needs to change. The whole point is that maximizing vehicle traffic speeds on streets leads to unsafe streets and dysfunctional street life. Trying to put lots of intersections and driveways on roads similarly leads to reduced utility of the road as a thing that connects places via high speed travel and also makes it unsafe.
The book is called Confessions of a Recovering Engineer (amazon link)
Containere. Le muta de pe un vapor pe altu si le da druma sa plece zici ca-i router. Daca gasesti citeste https://www.amazon.com/Box-Shipping-Container-Smaller-Economy/dp/0691170819 e fascinant...
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691170819/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_166YJ9ACYA9TYEH746YV
While the other commenter is absolutely correct. What we are referring to when we talk about lean is very similar to Six Sigma. Basically trying to cut any and all waste from a process to create the most efficient and cost effective/ profitable outcome. I have very surface level knowledge on it and am actively looking into certifications for it.
This is the epic saga of the American automobile industry’s rise and demise, a compelling story of hubris, missed opportunities, and self-inflicted wounds that culminates with the president of the United States ushering two of Detroit’s Big Three car companies—once proud symbols of prosperity—through bankruptcy. With unprecedented access, Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Ingrassia takes us from factory floors to small-town dealerships to Detroit’s boardrooms to the White House. Ingrassia answers the big questions: Was Detroit’s self-destruction inevitable?
I’m more averse to his shitty business practices, strong anti-union sentiments and the appalling build quality of each tesla model for the first year or 2 after launch.
I also recommend this book for anyone who’s interested
Since I don’t see it mentioned in any other comment, the U.S. specifically helped to rebuild Japan’s economy after WWII. Edwards Deming was particularly influential but generally a whole field of quality engineering really took off in Japan in a way that hadn’t yet caught on in the U.S., leading to major companies like Sony, Honda and Toyota—with Toyota now so esteemed for its quality manufacturing that the “Toyota Way” is now studied in the West.
I could try to dig up more info on this if you’re curious but most of it I’ve picked up second hand from my husband who’s an industrial engineer and studied quality engineering.
Read the Highway Code book, you can find it on amazon for cheap here and I used this website which was a huge help to pass my test: http://toptests.co.uk/
Crash Course by Paul Ingrassia gives a good account of the "carpocalypse" of 2008, specifically focusing on the bailouts of GM and Chrysler.