Now, here was a really interesting situation, Kevin. Did you see this robotaxy outage that left passengers stranded on highways in China?

No.

So this happened in Wuhan recently.

I've heard of that place before. Did they do anything else?

It's not clear to me. I'm not really familiar with their game.

But apparently, there was some

sort of technical glitch that caused a number of robotaxies owned by the Chinese tech

giant Baidu to freeze, trapping some passengers in their vehicles for more than an hour.

And I just thought, my gosh, what a nightmare. Just imagine you're in your robotaxie on the way

to a wet market in Wuhan.

You have an appointment with a pangolin who's going to cough on you to see if they can transmit anything to you. And then your robotaxie gets stuck. Horrible. It's a nightmare. It's an absolute nightmare. Well, I think that robo taxi outage is definitely the worst thing that's ever come out of Wuhan. Yeah. When it comes to these

Bidu robotaxies, my advice, buy don't.

Oh, boy. is definitely the worst thing that's ever come out of Wuhan. Yeah. When it comes to these Ba-do robo-taxies, my advice, buy-don't.

Oh, boy.

No, that was the worst thing to come out of Wuhan.

I'm Kevin Roos of Tech columns

with the New York Times.

I'm Casey Newton from Platformer.

And this is hard for this week. Social media companies keep losing in court. How will that reshape the internet? Then, the Infinity Machine author Sebastian Malaby joins us to discuss his new book on Google DeepMind and Demasasasas' quest to build super intelligence. Finally, it's been a while. Let's catch up with some hat GPT.

I missed you.

Me too.

Well, Kevin, while we were away, I was riveted by what was going on in the courtrooms in Los Angeles and New Mexico related to social media.

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