Byte #1 - What Grand Theft Auto teaches us about self-driving cars
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4.6 • 37 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2017
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Futurismo Bites is brought to you by EY's automotive and |
| 0:06.2 | transportation sector, the global leader in delivering innovative, pragmatic solutions |
| 0:10.6 | to enhance mobility. To learn more about EY's commitment to building a better |
| 0:14.6 | working world, please visit W.W. EY.com. Automotive. A few weeks ago I went out to Northern California with friends to do some off-roading in the mountains. |
| 0:29.0 | I was to your right. |
| 0:30.0 | I was to your right. |
| 0:32.0 | How did I turn on my blinker. |
| 0:34.0 | Oh, we don't have that. |
| 0:37.0 | Okay, okay, we didn't really go off-roading. |
| 0:40.0 | This is audio of us playing Grand Theft Auto 5, the violent carjacking video game that would probably shock and upset my mother. |
| 0:48.0 | So it's ahead of me, right? |
| 0:50.0 | It's that highway right there? |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah. So just keep on the street right there., so just keep on the train track soon. |
| 0:54.0 | There should be a way to turn off. |
| 0:55.0 | That's my friend. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm over at his apartment because he owns Grand Theft Auto. |
| 1:00.0 | And despite my employers being overwhelmingly supportive of Futurismo, I didn't think they |
| 1:05.3 | led me expense buying the game. |
| 1:07.6 | So why did I need to play GTA? |
| 1:10.7 | Let's just say Grand Theft Auto may not be suitable for the pages of automotive news, but it is useful |
| 1:16.6 | to understanding a key concept behind self-driving cars. |
| 1:20.4 | And one day, far into the future, when you're in a self-driving off-roader on a mountain, |
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