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Are you a good driver?

Search Engine

PJ Vogt

Business, Technology

4.85.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

The story of how a secret project at Google led to driverless cars on American roads. And, an answer to the question: are the robots actually safer drivers than we are? 

Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car , Alex Davies

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0:00.0

This episode of Search Engine is brought to you in part by Mooby, the global film company that champions great cinema.

0:06.3

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0:22.4

and each other.

0:23.6

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0:28.8

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0:32.0

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0:49.8

for a whole month of great cinema for free.

1:26.4

Thank you. for a whole month of your life.

1:29.9

You're you, but it's almost 200 years ago.

1:33.6

And unfortunately, in our hypothetical, it's Monday morning.

1:36.2

It's Monday morning and it's very early.

1:37.6

Pre-dawn.

1:41.1

You wake up to this really hard wrapping at your window.

1:45.3

That's the knocker-upper here to get you up for work. We're in the 1800s before the invention of the adjustable alarm clock. The knocker-upper is a job. The knocker-upper

1:52.5

walks the neighborhood with a long stick and taps it on the windows of people's houses early

1:57.5

in the morning to wake them up for work. Who wakes up to knock her upper for work? Nobody knows.

2:03.6

But this is a job. A job that'll actually exist for another century.

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