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Johnnycab (Automation Paradox, Pt. 2)

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How Self Driving Cars Will Change Society

Self driving cars could enable a world in which no one owns a car and all of us just get around by robot taxi. Google doesn't want to just change how we relate to our cars, it wants to change how cars relate to society. Maybe these things can react faster than humans. But censors will fail. Navigation will get screwy on board. Computers will break. Car owners barely know how to fix their own vehicles as it is now. So will people be able to fix the kinds of complicated problems that come with a self driving car? It really depends on how they end up being used in the market, right? Chris imagines that if a self-driving car breaks

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