No way Waymo?
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🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
American consumers have a lot of skepticism about self-driving vehicles, according to a new AAA survey. It finds that less than half of us would get in a car without a driver and far fewer would use automated driving when they’re behind the wheel. Also, we’ll hear about a proposed EU-Ukraine partnership over strategic minerals, unpack federal agency responses to an ultimatum by Elon Musk and look at EV truck charging infrastructure.
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| 0:00.0 | The country is divided into no-way-weimo and yes-way-wemo people. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm David Brancaccio. First, the European Union is now proposing that Ukraine and the EU develop a partnership to share the bounty of Ukraine's strategically important minerals. |
| 0:18.0 | The offer comes at the same time President Trump is pushing Kiev for a big |
| 0:21.6 | minerals deal with the U.S. The BBC's Danny Eberhardt has more. |
| 0:25.6 | Ukraine's deposits of minerals like rare earths, titanium, graphite and lithium are attracting |
| 0:31.4 | increasing attention. The European Commissioner for Industrial Strategy proposed a deal on a trip to Kiev on Monday. |
| 0:38.9 | Stefan Sejone said it would be a win-win, adding the EU would never demand a deal that was not |
| 0:44.6 | mutually beneficial. It seems a markedly different approach to that of Washington. |
| 0:49.6 | President Trump has demanded massive deals, seeing them as a way of recouping past aid to Ukraine. |
| 0:55.7 | President Zelensky has so far resisted, but is keen to keep the U.S. on side. |
| 1:00.9 | Federal agencies appear divided over how to respond to an ultimative from the unofficial government |
| 1:06.6 | cuts czar, Elon Musk. Musk had messaged on X that federal workers would get an email asking |
| 1:12.9 | what they did last week and failure to respond would be taken as a resignation. But some federal |
| 1:18.9 | agencies, including spy agencies, have said ignore and now Musk has doubled down as Marketplace's |
| 1:24.7 | Nancy Marshall-Genzor reports. Last night on X, Musk said federal workers would be given another chance to reply to the email, |
| 1:32.3 | and if they didn't respond a second time, they'd be terminated. |
| 1:36.1 | But Reuters is reporting the Office of Personnel Management, basically the government's |
| 1:40.5 | HR department, told federal agencies their workers didn't have to reply. The agencies |
| 1:45.9 | themselves are giving conflicting guidance. Some, like OPM and the General Services Administration, |
| 1:51.4 | which manages federal buildings, encourage their workers to respond. Others, like the Defense Department, |
| 1:57.4 | justice, state, and Homeland Security departments told them not to. Federal employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau got the email, even though they've been told to stop working. I'm Nancy Marshall Genser for Marketplace. |
| 2:11.9 | We just got the big home price index. It's from December from S&P Case Schiller, which found home prices up 3.9% in a year. |
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