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Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Fighting the Good Fight; Autonomous Cars

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Ralph talks to the President of Public Citizen, Robert Weissman, about that organization’s storied history fighting and winning against the perfidies of corporate power. And in our listener question segment, Ralph defends his position on autonomous cars and talks about what he might do differently if he had it to do all over again.


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0:00.0

From the K-P-F-K Studios in Southern California,

0:03.6

it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

0:05.6

Stand up, stand up.

0:07.6

You've been sitting great to jump.

0:10.3

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

0:12.1

My name is Steve Scrovan, along with the man of the hour,

0:14.6

Ralph Nader, who just got back from Detroit after being inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame

0:21.1

of all things. We'll talk about that a little bit later, but just tell me in general,

0:24.9

Ralph, was that interesting time for you?

0:28.0

Unusual experience, to say the least. They had it at COBOL-So they had some old cars there including the Corver and you can't believe how many people

0:37.4

wanted me to stand in front of the Corver for pictures.

0:40.8

I decided to comply out of courtesy but they were all very nice other people were

0:46.8

inducted the former CEO of Ford who turned Ford around Alan Mohaley and interesting Berta Bens from many many years ago. The spouse of the

0:58.4

creator of the first automobile in the late 19th century she was inducted because she was really the

1:04.2

financial and motivational powerhouse behind her husband. Oh wow interesting and

1:08.7

you've made the Corver a collector's item. Yeah there's a Corver Club of America with thousands of members.

1:15.7

I wish we had an auto safety club with thousands of members that have an annual convention.

1:21.5

But you can't deny the motivation of car collectors.

1:25.0

They love them.

1:27.0

Yeah.

1:28.0

Well, we have a great show for you today, people.

1:29.7

In the second half of the show, we're going to get Ralph's take on what has happened the past two weeks of the Republican and Democratic conventions

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