#253: The Road Ahead for Self-Driving Cars

Tech Policy Podcast

TechFreedom

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4.8 • 45 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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As the technology behind self-driving cars becomes increasingly viable for more widespread use, lawmakers and regulators have grappled with creating a legal framework for them. Jamie Boone, Vice President of Government Affairs at the Consumer Technology Association, and Ian Adams, Vice President of Policy at TechFreedom, join the show to discuss the current regulatory landscape for autonomous vehicles at the state and federal levels.

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0:00.0	Welcome to a tech policy podcast. I'm Ashken Kazarian. On today's show, we have a very exciting topic for all of you. We're going to talk about self-driving cars. Definitely an invention I'm most excited about as a 27-year-old who doesn't know how to drive and lives in America.
0:22.2	And making his debut on the podcast, Ian Adams. And thank you for joining us. Hey, it's a pleasure,
0:27.3	Ash, glad to be here. And I should say, you're soon to be 28, right? God, now it's on the record.
0:32.9	And we have Vice President of Government Affairs of a Consumer Technology Association, Jamie Boone.
0:37.9	Jamie, thank you for returning to our podcast.
0:40.0	Great.
0:40.4	Happy to be back talking about my favorite topic.
0:43.1	And now you have me and not Evan as your host, so we're going to do obviously grading
0:47.7	afterwards.
0:48.9	And I'm going to send it to Evan.
0:50.3	Oh, great.
0:51.6	Definitely be fair then.
0:53.3	All right.
0:53.7	So let's start at the beginning of self-driving cars.
0:58.1	What they are, what's the terminology that people usually use when they talk about it,
1:03.3	whatever kind of code words and things like that.
1:06.1	Ian, you want to kick us off?
1:07.7	Sure.
1:08.2	I'm happy to do that.
1:09.3	Well, for a long time, people have dreamt of vehicles
1:13.8	that can pilot themselves, can navigate independently of human interaction. What we're talking
1:22.3	about is a technology that has the potential to get there, though I think it's easy for people
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