The Man Making Self-Driving Trucks

On with Kara Swisher

New York Magazine

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Tesla’s self-driving ambitions (and the company’s recent recall) may dominate the conversation when it comes to autonomous driving, but they’re not the only players in the space. This week, Kara’s talking to CEOs whose driverless vehicles are being roadtested. First up: Chris Urmson, co-founder and CEO of Aurora, which will launch its driverless truck service next year in Texas. They discuss safety, job displacement and the time that Kara tried to hit Urmson with his own driverless car. (Spoiler alert: It didn’t work.) BTW, do you have any burning questions on career, love or life you’d like Kara or Nayeema’s advice on? If so, call 1-888-KARA-PLZ and leave us a voice mail. Questions? Comments? Email us at [email protected] or find us on Instagram. We’re @karaswisher and @nayeemaraza. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone from New York magazine in the Vox Media Podcast Network. This is Convoy
0:16.5	Good Buddy just kidding. This is on with Cara Swisher and I'm Cara Swisher and I'm
0:20.8	Neymar Raza and I do not know what Convoy Good Buddy is. What is Convoy? Yes, young person.
0:26.9	It's a movie about trucking. There's a whole bunch of them. Okay, it's not because I'm
0:31.1	young, it's because I don't know about trucking. I think it's fully never saw him. It's like
0:34.9	the 80s. I think it was the 80s and it was a series of movies that sort of celebrated
0:39.9	the truckers, including Smokey and the Bandit with Burt Reynolds and Sally Field, which
0:44.6	was one of my favorite series of movies. And it's all about how truckers is this romantic
0:48.6	version of truckers. Everyone loves a good truck. Cyber truck, the truck. My son certainly
0:53.2	does. He calls him Gucks. Why Gucks? I don't know. He can't pronounce truck. He's one
0:57.3	and a half. No, it's all bad. I was thinking Louis. I was like, we can't pronounce the
1:00.8	word truck. Yes, my five-year-old Godson loves trucks too. He points them out everywhere.
1:06.3	So it's car week here at on. And you are in San Francisco, an epicenter of innovation.
1:13.3	You know, I'm a city gal. I'm into public transport and walking. But Cara, you're a car
1:17.6	gal. Yes, I am now. I have a hybrid and an electric car.
1:21.7	You have Chevy Bolt, electric cameras, Kia SUV. You're like the Goldilocks of cars.
1:26.1	I change cars a lot. And now I'm spending a lot of time thinking about electric cars
1:30.8	and autonomous cars and autonomous vehicles. And also moving about a city. How do you change
1:35.4	a city from sort of a car-centric city to one that's not? Today, we have an interview
1:40.3	with Chris Armson, the CEO of the Autonomous Driving Company, Aurora Innovations. And
1:44.8	on Thursday, we've got an interview coming with Tequitra Mawakana, the co-CEO of Waymo,
1:49.9	which is formerly known as Google Self Driving Car Project. And also happens to be
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