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🗓️ 23 April 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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0:00.0 | Sabotage, hired goons and a landfill in Utah. |
0:05.0 | How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief |
0:10.7 | second life and then was buried for good. |
0:14.8 | Watch the Verge's documentary, Lisa's final act, now on YouTube. |
0:19.6 | Hey everybody, it's C9 from The Vergecast. |
0:24.0 | On this week's interview episode, I sat down with Andy Hawkins once again, our senior |
0:28.0 | transportation reporter. |
0:29.4 | We talked to Aurora CEO Chris Irmson. |
0:32.6 | Aurora's a new self-driving car startup. |
0:35.3 | They're really focused on the software package, on the cars themselves. |
0:37.9 | But Chris is really interesting, he used to be at Waymo, which is Google's self-driving |
0:41.7 | division. |
0:42.7 | He was at Carnegie Mellon, which is a hotbed of self-driving research talent. |
0:47.4 | So we talked about the industry, why it's so crazy, why all the people are suing each |
0:51.1 | other, why the talent, he was leaving from one company to another, how hard it is to |
0:56.0 | develop a self-driving car. |
0:58.2 | We talked about the first line of code, they sat down and wrote at Aurora, it's not what |
1:02.1 | you think, and it's way more complicated than I expected. |
1:05.0 | We also talked about whether it's going to happen. |
1:06.9 | This is the first question I ask every self-driving car person that comes on a show. |
1:10.8 | Is this going to happen? |
1:12.2 | They also yes, because they all run the companies. |
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