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Who’s to Blame When a Self-Driving Car Kills Someone? w/ Lauren Smiley

Tech Won't Save Us

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What Has Self Driving Meant for Raphael Vasquez?

Before the crash happened in two thousand 18, there was a lot of excitement about self driving cars. It truly did feel, as you said, that like autonomy was around the corner. People were rolling out very ambitious time lines of how we were goin to have robo taxis and life just a matter of years. And ou no tech workers themselves were paying attention to these headlines too. When i talked to some former uber employees for this story, they themselves said, 'We didn't have a ton to go on at this time'

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