Recode Decode: Aicha Evans and Jesse Levinson

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Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Zoox CEO Aicha Evans and CTO Jesse Levinson talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about their development of a fully autonomous robo-taxi, which will be designed for multiple passengers to share and is planned to hit public roads before the end of 2021. They discuss how Evans was persuaded to come to the self-driving company from Intel after the departure of Levinson's co-founder and the company's original CEO, Tim Kentley-Klay; how Zoox’s car compares to Tesla's "autopilot" feature; and why they intentionally designed it to avoid "the Uber Pool problem." Plus: Is the nearly $1 billion Zoox has raised enough to compete in the rapidly changing auto industry? Featuring: Aicha Evans (@aicha2evans), CEO, Zoox Jesse Levinson, CTO and co-founder, Zoox Host: Kara Swisher (@karaswisher), Recode co-founder and editor-at-large More to explore: On Reset, Arielle Duhaime-Ross explores why — and how — tech is changing everything. On Recode Media, Peter Kafka interviews business titans, journalists, comedians and podcasters about the collision of tech and media. On Pivot, Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway talk about the big tech news stories of the week, who's winning, who's failing, and what comes next. And on Land of the Giants, Jason Del Rey chronicled the rise of Amazon. Season 2 will focus on Netflix and is coming soon! About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Follow Us: Newsletter: Recode Daily Twitter: @Recode and @voxdotcom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Gideon Litchfield, I'm the editor-in-chief of Oired.
0:02.6	And I'm Lauren Good, I'm a senior writer at Wired.
0:05.2	We're making a new show.
0:06.5	Have a nice future.
0:09.0	I'm more have a nice future, question mark.
0:12.5	It's a show that is honest about how unsettling the future can be.
0:16.9	We're going to be bringing on the people shaping this future.
0:20.6	We're going to ask them about the big challenges we face, about the challenges they're creating,
0:24.9	and how they deal with living in perpetual uncertainty as we all do.
0:29.3	So make sure you follow Have a Nice Future, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:36.2	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, editor-in-charge of Recode.
0:38.5	You may know me as someone who thinks self-driving cars should have a road rage mode
0:42.2	if they really want me to feel at home.
0:43.7	But in my spare time, I'm just a reporter and I'm listening to Recode Decode,
0:46.7	a podcast about power change in the people you need to know.
0:49.6	We're part of the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:51.9	Today in the red chair are Isha Evans and Jesse Levinson,
0:55.6	the CEO and CTO of the autonomous car company, Zooks.
0:59.2	We're recording this at Zooks' Headquarter in Foster City, California,
1:02.6	because I just got to ride in one of their test vehicles, the L3.
1:06.8	We'll talk about what that was like,
1:08.4	and one consumer is going to have a chance to ride in their own Zooks car.
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