The AVs are getting involved in 50% as many crashes compared to what we observe humans doing. The more severe crashes that would be more likely to lead to injury, the AVs are doing significantly better at avoiding those. I think you can probably drive way safer than a human just by like never going 70 miles an hour and never checking your phone while driving.
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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