Lyft’s CEO on the end of driving
The Times Tech Podcast
Will Morley
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Could today’s teenagers be the last to sit a driving test? Danny Fortson and Katie Prescott look at the rise of self-driving cars, from Waymo’s cars in San Francisco to new UK laws on autonomous vehicles. They also hear from Lyft CEO David Risher who explain why your kids may never need to drive and what that means for cities, carmakers and the rest of us.
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| 0:00.0 | Katie, can you play a sent to the pod? |
| 0:05.8 | I'll try. |
| 0:06.6 | Ready? |
| 0:07.3 | Yeah, I'm ready. |
| 0:08.3 | Then be down, but I don't stay low. |
| 0:14.0 | Got mud on my jeans. |
| 0:16.8 | Still ready to go. |
| 0:17.1 | Okay, if I was a competent DJ, I'd like fade that really nicely. |
| 0:20.8 | Well, hey, you know, you can't be great at all things, Katie. |
| 0:24.6 | Why did you want to start with that track today? |
| 0:27.6 | Okay, first of all, I'm not a big country guy. |
| 0:30.7 | But that song was from a new, hot new group called Breaking Rust, strange name. |
| 0:39.3 | I like it. I actually really liked it. It was a good song. |
| 0:41.5 | And it's called Walk My Walk. And it is number one on Billboard's country digital sales charts, |
| 0:49.7 | which is something that like, you know, a lot of country music stars, very famous ones, have not ever |
| 0:55.1 | achieved. Now, you're probably wondering, why are we listening to a country music song at the |
| 1:01.2 | beginning of a tech podcast? But it's very catchy. And thank you for introducing it. It might |
| 1:05.7 | replace cable demon hunters in my life. You're welcome. Well, we'll see. But the reason I put that up there is that is all AI. |
| 1:13.4 | That is not a real human. |
| 1:14.8 | That is completely 100% AI generated. |
| 1:18.4 | Ouch. |
| 1:19.3 | Oh, no. |
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