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MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 12-16-2024-223821

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

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4.412.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Through her unique approach to storytelling, Rachel Maddow provides in-depth reporting to illuminate the current state of political affairs and reveals the importance of transparency and accountability from our leaders. Maddow works with unmatched rigor and resolve to explain our complex world and deliver news in a way that's illuminating and dynamic, connecting the dots to make sense of complex issues. Maddow also conducts thoughtful interviews with individuals at the center of current news stories to provide important perspective.

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0:00.0

Thanks to at home for joining us, this hour. Really happy to have you here. So, speaking of the holidays,

0:05.7

two years ago on Thanksgiving Day, so Thanksgiving Day 2020, the leader of one of the world's

0:13.5

highest profile car companies made a surprise Thanksgiving Day announcement. He told people who owned his company's cars that as of

0:25.1

that day, they no longer had to drive their cars. Starting that day, Thanksgiving Day,

0:32.0

the cars would be able to drive themselves from here on out. Quote, Tesla full self-driving beta is now available to

0:42.1

anyone in North America who requests it from their car screen, assuming you have bought this option.

0:48.8

Congratulations to Tesla autopilot slash AI team on achieving a major milestone.

0:57.0

So this is two years ago, again, 2022 Thanksgiving Day.

1:00.0

Not really any warning this was coming, just,

1:03.0

hey, hey, if you bought a Tesla when you had the option

1:08.0

when you bought it to pay a little bit extra, so it would be capable of driving

1:12.7

itself someday if that day ever came. Well, that day has come. Happy Thanksgiving. So Tesla, like

1:20.4

lots of cars now. They send software updates over the air to their cars. So your car gets its operating system updated while it's

1:29.3

parked in your driveway. What the company's CEO was announcing that day in 2022 was, hey,

1:34.7

while you've been inside enjoying turkey and stuffing and, I don't know, six to eight glasses

1:41.1

of wine with your family, lucky you, your car out there in the driveway

1:46.0

has just been upgraded to one that can drive itself.

1:49.4

So if you want, feel free to give it a go.

1:51.8

Just click the switch on the screen on your dashboard

1:55.2

and the car henceforth will drive you wherever you want to go. It was Thanksgiving Day. The company CEO put

2:03.9

out that announcement. Within a few hours, it had led to some news. Now on 5, 16 people, including

2:12.3

eight kids were part of a multi-car crash on the Bay Bridge causing some major traffic tie-ups.

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