The Future of Road Safety

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I think it's a really interesting philosophical debate. Even if robots do results in far fewer, you know, people dying on our roadways, even a small number of them is going to have people go nuts. But I truly think that after you take your first self driving car taxi, and it's basically fine, you're just going to take them a lot more.

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.