128. Baby, You Can Program My Car

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🗓️ 29 May 2013

⏱️ 6 minutes

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A glimpse into our driverless future.

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0:00.0	From APM, American Public Media, and WNYC.
0:07.0	This is Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace.
0:11.0	Here's the host of Marketplace, Kyra's Doll.
0:16.0	Time now for a little Freakonomics radio.
0:18.0	It's that moment every couple of weeks we talk to Stephen Dubner, the co-author of the
0:21.0	books and the blog of the same name.
0:23.0	The hidden side of everything is what he does.
0:25.0	Hey Dubner, how are you?
0:26.0	Hey, Kyra, I'm great.
0:27.0	Hey, I've got a question for you today.
0:29.0	How well do you think that a computer would do your job?
0:33.0	Host, what are you getting?
0:34.0	What are you getting?
0:35.0	You've been probing my nightmares, what?
0:36.0	That's not a good question.
0:38.0	Here's the thing.
0:39.0	It strikes me, this very interesting point in history where we've all become very
0:44.0	reliant on computers.
0:45.0	And yet there are some things that humans do and will always do better, like radio hosting.
0:49.0	But let me ask you this parallel question.
0:52.0	How good are you at driving?
0:54.0	Well, I'm a man.
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