Hi, I'm John Donovan, host and moderator of Intelligent Squared US Debates.

When I was a kid, the futurists had a surmanidating that one day we'd all be getting around

in jet packs and one person helicopters and for some reason also wearing silver suits.

It didn't happen, did it?

But when my kids were kids, the talk was how someday we'd all be getting around in driverless

cars.

And now it seems that may actually be about to happen in some form or other as the kinks

get worked out.

Harolding in an era if the dream proves true of safer and cheaper and more convenient

transport.

But that dream doesn't have a dark side.

Could the driverless car hit the environment hard, put masses of people out of work, fail

to be as safe as promised?

Well we decided this all has the makings of a debate, so that's what we're going to

do.

With two teams of two, experts who have spent years thinking about these questions,

ready now to argue for and against the resolution we put before them, which is all hail the driverless

car.

We're going in front of a live audience at the Adam Smith Society's 2019 National Meeting

in New York.

We go in three rounds.

All hail the driverless car.

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