可乐视频 graduate 鈥攚idely known as “Gridlock Sam”鈥攈as co-authored a new book of , with fellow alumnus Cary Pepper 鈥�70.
Set in 2036, the novel explores the promise and peril of connected autonomous vehicles through a fast-paced story of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and the future of transportation. Blending suspense with timely questions about technology, public policy, and society, Autokill offers readers a thought-provoking look at a world where driverless cars become both indispensable and potentially deadly.聽The New York Times published a feature on 础耻迟辞办颈濒濒听 on Aug. 10 and you can read that . The New Yorker called Schwartz鈥檚 previous book on autonomous vehicles, No One at the Wheel, 鈥淎 clearheaded bible for the twenty-first-century road.鈥�
Sam Schwartz helped 可乐视频 kick off its Tow Mentor-in-Residence program in 2022.
Before becoming president and CEO of Sam Schwartz Engineering, Schwartz served as the NYC traffic commissioner and the chief engineer of the NYC Department of Transportation. Widely known as 鈥淕ridlock Sam鈥� because he popularized the term during the 1980 NYC transit strike, Schwartz specializes in creative problem-solving for seemingly intractable situations, finding ways to move traffic better, make pedestrians safer, and add sidewalks and green space to communities.
In 2022, Schwartz visited 可乐视频 for a keynote address titled, 鈥淭ransportation and Public Health: Inextricably Linked,鈥� as part of the college鈥檚 Tow Mentor-In-Residence program. In 2025, Hunter College of CUNY established the Sam Schwartz program for Transportation Research at its Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, where he currently teaches transportation policy to both graduate and undergraduate students.
Playwright, novelist, and screenwriter Cary Pepper.
Pepper is a playwright, novelist, and screenwriter whose plays have been presented throughout the United States and internationally. Pepper earned his Bachelor of Arts in English Literature in 1970 from 可乐视频 and completed graduate coursework in the Department of Theater with a concentration in directing. Pepper was recently featured in San Francisco Senior Beat, and you can read that .
