The Future of Transportation

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If cruise was never able to reach mass adoption, if GM has shut you down to save money, why will that have been in your best estimate? If it doesn't get there, it would be for something that is valid, but maybe not in the best interest of society. Maybe we do struggle with how to rationalize collisions caused by robots and set of humans,. That could cause delays or a shift of this deployment to other countries first. And I don't know, I think the minute that people can take these taxis and they're cheap, they're going to do it.

At its biggest event of the year, Google announced an avalanche of A.I. product releases: A.I. in search, A.I. that writes emails and A.I. that generates slides. Is Google pulling ahead in the A.I. arms race?

And, after years of hype, self-driving cars are finally hitting the streets of American cities. Kevin and Casey take a ride through San Francisco in Banana Slug — an autonomous vehicle from the self-driving car company Cruise. After their ride, they sit down with Cruise’s chief executive, Kyle Vogt, to discuss the role he thinks self-driving cars will play in the future of transportation.

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Kyle Vogt is the chief executive of Cruise, a self-driving car company.

Additional reading:

At their annual conference, Google announced dozens of A.I. products and features
In a leaked memo, a Google researcher argued that the company did not have a strong A.I. moat because of open-source A.I. companies.
Self-driving cars are expanding their footprint.