What Is the Nature of Culture?

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Elisha otis claims that he stood in front of a crowd with his safety elevator. It's unclear whether the event occurred exactly as alisha otis or otis described it. We don't kow if it actually happened or not, that he cut the rope and his catch mecod doesn't stop the elevator from descending. This is the otis safety narrative for over a hundred years. So what do you care to speculate on the nature of culture itself?

Safety is one of the words that comes up most often in discussions about autonomous vehicles, but not many people really understand what the word even means in this complex context. Nat Beuse, VP of Safety at Aurora not only has "the s word" in his job title, its a topic he's thought about and worked on for decades. He joins this week's show for a wide-ranging discussion of safety, public trust, and autonomous vehicles.