Amazon’s AI driver supervisors, OZY media fallout, rising FEMA flood insurance, OpenScouting | E1294
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, we have a great show for you today, everybody. Amazon drivers are being monitored by cameras |
| 0:05.3 | to make them more productive and to make them safer, and it is having a dramatic effect |
| 0:09.6 | in terms of distracted driving, people blowing stop signs, but there are privacy issues. |
| 0:15.0 | And it leads to a bigger discussion about pilots and surgeons. Should they have cameras too? Let's |
| 0:20.7 | talk about that. And Tesla, in a related story, has released a new driver score, which across |
| 0:26.6 | five vectors makes you a massively safer driver. That's something you can opt into, and it is |
| 0:31.0 | awesome. And the Aussie media fallout continues. We'll get into that. Let's talk about beachfront |
| 0:37.4 | homes and how they are now people in flood zones are going to be asked over the next 10 to 20 years |
| 0:43.2 | to pay their proper share of their insurance, because they've been subsidized up until this point. |
| 0:48.6 | Plus, I touch on a new program we're doing that could help you become a venture capital |
| 0:53.1 | list and break into venture. It's called openscouting.com. And I'll talk about that at the end of |
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| 1:57.2 | and there's a lot here to unpack. Amazon drivers are being monitored by cameras to make them more |
| 2:04.4 | productive and safer on the road. So is this fair? Is Amazon overreaching? Is this in everybody's |
| 2:09.8 | best interest? Is this big brother? Very complicated. There's a lot of layers here. So let's dig in. |
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