A self-driving taxi in San Francisco veered into the left lane for no apparent reason. The driver says he never gave up onDriverless cars, but now is finding it hard to sit back and enjoy the ride. "It just seems so obvious to me that within a couple of years, like people are going to be taking these taxis," writes CNN's John Sutter.
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.
On today’s episode:
- Kyle Vogt is the chief executive of Cruise, a self-driving car company.
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