TECH FOCUS: VEHiClE DyNAMiCS Daniel Williams speaking at an SAE conference in 2019. M BOY IN CONTROL from great engineers and physicists of yore. The father of the laws of motion, Sir Isaac Newton, generated his profound ideas while in retreat during the black plague. Williams took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to produce Generalized Vehicle Dynamics, his first book. Williams characterizes the book as " my weak imitation " of Newton's. Williams pays homage not just to the giants of old, but to contemporaries such as Professor and SAE Fellow (2014) Dan Metz, who wrote the forward for the book. UPDATE To give readers a little taste of the tome, Update republishes here the first part of the book's introduction. " Vehicle dynamics is a mature field when applied to two-axle vehicles. Passenger cars are responsible for most vehicle miles traveled, and their generally consistent architecture justifies the analytical attention they have historically received. There are excellent vehicle dynamics books available; the reader deserves to know what makes this book particularly valuable. First, this book uses new and nonstandard December 2022 9 SAE Internationalhttps://www.sae.org/update/