ON THIS WEEK’S episode of Have a Nice Future, Gideon Lichfield and Lauren Goode talk to Chris Urmson, CEO of the self-driving-truck company Aurora. They discuss new legislation in California that could help or hinder a driverless future, whether self-driving vehicles are actually safer, and the consequences for the transportation industry if (human) truck drivers become unnecessary.
Check our our coverage of self-driving cars and autonomous vehicles, including Aarian Marshall’s story about Aurora and the rise of autonomous trucking.
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Note: This is an automated transcript, which may contain errors.
Gideon Lichfield: Hello?
Lauren Goode: Hey, Gideon.
Gideon Lichfield: Lauren, is that you?
Lauren Goode: It’s me.
Gideon Lichfield: It’s kind of late. Why are you calling me this late?
Lauren Goode: Well, I’m calling you from a self-driving taxi.
Gideon Lichfield: Wait. As in totally driverless, no human?
Lauren Goode: Totally driverless, human-free. I can talk on my phone all I want. It’s pretty wild. And I just, I had to call you.
[Music]
Gideon Lichfield: Hi, I’m Gideon Lichfield.
Lauren Goode: And I’m Lauren Goode, coming to you live from a totally driverless car, and this is Have a Nice Future, a podcast about how terrifyingly fast everything is changing.
Gideon Lichfield: Each week we talk to someone with big, audacious, and sometimes unnerving ideas about the future, and we ask them how we can all prepare to live in it.
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