Autonomous cars - a social, ethical, political nightmare? Helen Czerski speaks with Jack Stilgoe
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Helen Czerski talks to Jack Stilgoe, Associate professor in Science and Technology Studies at University College London, about automotive automation. Yes, it's an exciting technology that will hopefully benefit everyone, but before we get to that point, it has many, many barriers to overcome. Helen talks to Jack about the politics behind it, the ethical nature of if something goes wrong and how this affects us, as a society. There are four reasons to go to www.fullycharged.show. 1. Fully Charged Live tickets, local and International event tickets are available there. 2. If you are looking for wonderful suppliers and firms that pass the strict Fully Charged guidelines for sustainability and technology, check them out on our fabulous A-Z guide. 3. Merchandise - We have a brand new selection of sustainable merch on there to. And don't worry all sales profits go straight back into making the show better. 4. Lastly, Patreon - a huge thank you to all our Patreon supporters, without your help we simply wouldn't be able to keep you informed with all our content we make. So if you would like to support us, Patreon might be a good fit. But as always no pressure to do so. So if you have been, thank you for listening. Please take a look at our main channel. It's much more fancy: https://www.youtube.com/user/fullycha... ----- And if you don't like it, you definitely won't enjoy our fancy website: https://fullycharged.show/
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| 0:00.0 | The Hello and I'm popping on to the |
| 0:14.0 | I'm popping on to the |
| 0:18.0 | Hello and welcome to the fully charged show podcast. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Helen Chersky and I'm popping on to the fully charged show podcast. I'm Helen Cheriskey and I'm popping on to the |
| 0:24.3 | podcast this week to get stuck into a topic that really interests me. It's about |
| 0:29.2 | the technology of the future but it's not just what the technologies are but what we what society does with them |
| 0:36.2 | for example a self-driving car sounds like a really impressive technological achievement |
| 0:40.8 | but once you've got one who's in charge it? Who'd you blame if there's an accident? |
| 0:45.4 | What happens when the roads are half and half, half self-driving cars and half human-driven cars, |
| 0:51.8 | and who writes the rulebook? So what you're about to hear is a really interesting |
| 0:56.2 | discussion that I had on this topic with Dr Jack Stilgo, who's an associate professor of science |
| 1:01.3 | and technology studies at University College London |
| 1:04.1 | which is coincidentally also my university and I hope you enjoy it because there's |
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| 1:51.8 | Hello Jack thank you for joining us on the fully charged podcast. |
| 1:57.0 | We're going to be talking about the future of technology, but not so much the technology itself, |
| 2:01.6 | and I think that you have a particularly |
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