4.5 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | Casey did you hear about the guy who was arrested for trying to steal a driverless car? |
0:04.0 | No. |
0:05.0 | Yeah, this is real. |
0:06.0 | This actually happened a few days ago in Los Angeles. |
0:08.0 | Apparently this was a guy who got into a self-driving Weymo |
0:13.2 | as someone else was getting out. |
0:16.2 | The police officers say he got into the driver's seat |
0:19.5 | and tried to like basically drive it away, but couldn't manipulate the controls |
0:24.9 | and then a waymo employee who was like watching on the, you know, |
0:27.9 | the sort of like closed circuit TV that they have, um, was basically like, |
0:32.0 | Sir, please leave the car and the guy would not leave the car. |
0:35.8 | And so the waymo employee just called the police and the guy got arrested. |
0:40.4 | Well, see, I think that that's unfortunate, Kevin, because there's a much funnier way to resolve that situation, which is you close the doors, you lock them, and then you just have the car drive itself to jail. |
0:51.0 | That's true. Like if I'm the Weimo employee, that's the most fun day you've ever had. |
0:57.0 | Usually you're trying to like, you know, help it, oh, it got stuck on a curb or whatever. |
1:02.0 | This is your chance you can make |
1:04.9 | the best citizens arrest of all time by just remote piloting this man directly |
1:09.6 | to prison I hadn't really thought about it but like self-driving cars kind of defeat |
1:14.0 | the whole concept of the getaway car. Like you rob a bank and you get into the waymo and it's just like, |
1:19.7 | no, we're going to jail. But you know what you get charged with if you steal a self-driving car. |
1:28.0 | What's that? |
1:29.0 | Grand Theft Auto Pilot? |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The New York Times, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The New York Times and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.