The Rise of Self-Driving Cars

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🗓️ 5 May 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Neil deGrasse Tyson investigates the fast-rising world of self-driving cars with former VP of R&D at GM and Mobility Consultant for Google, Inc. Larry Burns, Wired magazine transportation editor Alex Davies, and comic co-host Chuck Nice. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Find out more at https://www.startalkradio.net/startalk-all-access/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:05.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.6	Star Talk begins right now.
0:22.8	This is Star Talk and I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:28.2	I got with me today as my comedic host, Chuck Nice.
0:31.2	Neil, what was good to have you, Chuck?
0:33.2	It's always good to be here.
0:34.2	Tweeting a Chuck Nice comic and you get your bad boy sometimes out there?
0:38.2	I'd like to kind of disrupt the world with my tweets about that.
0:42.2	Bringing truth to power.
0:43.2	It's always good to have you.
0:45.2	Today is a topic I long wanted to have on this show.
0:48.2	Really?
0:49.2	It's an exploration of self-driving cars.
0:51.2	Where are they?
0:52.2	Where they been?
0:53.2	Okay.
0:54.2	Let me ask you before we get into the show because since you're fascinated by this, are you an advocate of self-driving cars?
1:00.2	Yes.
1:01.2	First of you like to drive.
1:03.2	Now, I've driven with you so I'm going to say that you are a promising city kid so I don't long to get behind the wheel.
1:10.2	I think you like it when you're behind the wheel.
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