Self-Driving Cars Tempering the Hype, Evaluating the Problems—Christian Wolmar—Transport Policy Pundit and Author

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Media coverage on the prospect of self-driving cars leading the future of transportation has been almost entirely positive, highlighting the potential benefits and avoiding discussion of the numerous questions that remain. At first, Christian Wolmar, a pundit and author who's been an authoritative source on transport matters for over 25 years, swallowed the hype surrounding this new form of technology. But he didn't have to look too closely to realize that the hype was undue, with too many technical and social objections to ignore.

On today's episode, he delivers an overview of the many concerns with driverless cars, and the many challenges that would need to be overcome in order to realistically and safely consider a future in which they are the primary means of transportation. Tune in for an important and informative conversation on this emerging form of technology that's generating excitement, fear, and uncertainty.

Visit http://www.christianwolmar.co.uk/ to read all of Wolmar's recent articles.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You're listening to the Future Tech Podcast with Richard Jacobs.
0:09.0	Future Technologies such as Artificial Intelligence,
0:11.8	Stem Cells, 3D printing, gene editing,
0:14.6	Bitcoin, blockchain, the microbiome, quantum computing, virtual reality, and exploring space
0:21.0	are much closer than you might think.
0:23.0	In fact, many early versions of these technologies are in play right now,
0:27.0	and the companies that are using these technologies are the focus of this podcast.
0:31.0	My goal for you, the listener, is to learn from these
0:34.4	podcasts. You may very well learn something that may change the course of your life
0:38.2	for the better. Steer you towards a new career or give you insight into
0:42.4	addressing a thorny medical problem.
0:44.4	Remember, this podcast and its content is informational and nature only. No medical,
0:49.2	tax, legal, financial, or psychological advice is being given.
0:53.0	If you've enjoyed the podcast, please listen, subscribe, like, and tell your friends about it.
0:58.0	Thank you. Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Future Tech Podcast. I have Christian Womar.
1:09.3	He's a pundit. He talks about, you know, I guess the happenings that are going on
1:14.4	especially in the self-driving car industry so we're gonna focus on that today
1:19.2	so Christian thanks for coming how you doing I'm doing very well and it's great to help spread the message
1:28.1	about my views about driver's cars. Yeah, what's your, do you have any background that intersects with, you know, either the engineering
1:35.8	side or the public transport side or the, you know, where in your background?
1:39.8	I've been writing about transport matters really for about the last 25 years since been
1:47.8	transportation co-respondent on a national newspaper, The Independent. I've written about 20 books, some on transport
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Richard Jacobs, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Richard Jacobs and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.