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Hello listeners. Welcome back to Luke's English podcast. Are you ready for some more English listening

practice? Yes, you are. Okay, let's get started then. And just to begin this one, I want to tell you

about something that happened to me last summer. So for our summer holiday last year, my family and I

went to Los Angeles to stay with my cousin and his family. It was lovely.

And while we were there, we rented a car, of course, because you can't just be, you can't exist in Los Angeles without a car.

There's a lot of driving that has to be done everywhere in the city. So we were driving around

in this car one day driving down the highway on the way to somewhere. My wife next to me,

two kids in the back, and driving along this big multi-lane highway. And just in front of us,

there was this interesting looking car with what looked

like a sort of camera attached to the roof. And I said, oh, look, is that one of those Google cars?

Is that one of those Google Maps street view cars? Because you know those, you see them occasionally

driving around. It's a google car with a camera

on the top and it's capturing images for google street view you know when you go into google maps

you can access street view and essentially you can just like travel around most of the

roads in the world and actually have a look around

it's incredible and every now and then you see the the google car driving around so i said is that the

google car and i overtook the car and as as we overtook it we all had a look at the car you know

sort of had a look see who was. There was no one in the car.

It was completely empty. There was nobody in the driver's seat. The car was just driving itself.

It was an automatic driverless car, a self-driving car. And it's a weird thing to see. I don't know

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