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🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Are you all in yet on our future of self-driving cars? |
| 0:05.0 | What if I would tell you that you don't need to have any more teenagers going through the front windshield? |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Scott Ott with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green. |
| 0:14.0 | This episode of Right Angle is brought to you by the members at Bill Whittle.com. |
| 0:18.0 | Gentlemen, there's an op-ed piece written by a neurosurgeon in the Washington Post, |
| 0:24.4 | I believe, Dr. Jonathan Slotkin. And he is one of those guys who has to see the teenagers who've |
| 0:32.2 | been through the windshield. And recently, Waymo, the self-driving car company, basically shared all their data with the world, I think, but he had access to seeing all their data. |
| 0:47.8 | Autonomous vehicles and what the accident rates are for autonomous vehicles and especially the crippling and deadly accident rates are |
| 0:58.4 | compared to non-autonomous vehicles. |
| 1:00.8 | And a lot of the stories Stephen Green |
| 1:02.3 | that we're seeing in the media are the hazards, |
| 1:04.8 | the dangers of autonomous vehicles. |
| 1:07.2 | And anytime one has a crash or catches fire |
| 1:09.9 | or runs into something, |
| 1:12.1 | they, that gets played up. |
| 1:15.2 | Waymo apparently did not filter this data, just shared it out with everybody. |
| 1:21.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.1 | And or at least with the people for whom the data would make sense to see. |
| 1:26.5 | And they, they created a graph of crashes per million miles |
| 1:31.3 | and then categorized it by serious injury or worse, |
| 1:34.3 | meaning death, airbag deployments, |
| 1:38.3 | or any injury whatsoever. |
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