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Hey there and welcome to TechStup. I am Jonathan Strickland and to today together again at last.

What a duo. Scott Benjamin. Hey, I'm back. Joining the show and I actually have you here talking about cars.

Yeah, as usual, but thank you. You know what? I always appreciate the invite and this one is again right in my wheelhouse here so well

I'm excited yeah yeah I'm excited it's where I keep my wheels is in the house

yeah so we're we're talking today about a peculiar event, something that happened in February 2016, and it's just

taken me this long to finally get around and addressing it, you might have heard in previous

episodes of tech stuff about how I would champion the fact that Google

with their self-driving cars had had enormous success,

something like 1.45 million miles driven

without a single accident caused by the autonomous system.

There had been about 14 or so accidents but all of those

were either the fault of a person manually driving the car in manual mode or

another driver colliding with the autonomous car but never the fall of the

autonomous car itself. It was a perfect system until February 2016.

Yeah and that is the day of what I'll call and I system until February 2016.

Yeah, and that is the day of what I'll call and I really don't mean to over-dramaticize this at all.

So maybe I'm titling this episode I think maybe.

Sure. We should call this the St Valentine's Day Google self-driving car massacre.

Oh that has an excellent title and I'm all for it. Definitely not overly dramatic in any way.

Well I mean it's it's also funny because we're recording this the week after I've gotten back from

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