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Author Peter Norton urges self-reflection from self-driving industry (Episode 136)

Shift: A podcast about mobility

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Self-Driving Is Not the Only Utopian

Peter Norton: Elon Musk is a great person to choose because he demonstrates by his personal example that autonomous is much more about salesmanship, about marketing, about showmanship really than it is about say policy or engineering know how. He says the idea of tunnels in which passenger cars going one car at a time is going to solve your problems is laughably absurd and this is not me going out on a limb. Next week we'll be talking to Robert Malloy who's the director of the Office of Highway Safety at the National Transportation Safety Board. We'll be talking about a range of safety technologies that the board has examined and explored in recent years. And I think it's going to be another

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