Waymo Robo-Cabs - DTNS 3422

Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

News, Technology

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Waymo launched an autonomous taxi service in the Phoenix area. How soon will the rest of us have to wait to get lift from a robocab?

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0:00.0	A tech demo shows off the usual tech things.
0:03.7	Then I'm going to jump to a link using the usual tech devices.
0:07.0	We have a pointing device called a mouse.
0:09.0	Doing the usual tech productivity tasks.
0:11.4	Now we're connected audio. You can see my work, you can point at it, and I can see
0:15.7	your face and we can talk. Except it's 1968 and it's going to set the computing agenda for the
0:20.5	next half century, then almost immediately be ignored.
0:24.4	The mother of all demos on NOAA Little More.
0:27.6	Get it wherever you get your podcasts.
0:31.8	Attention. Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in
0:40.6	Uber credits to spend on your next train journey.
0:44.0	So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.
0:49.0	Trains, now on Uber.
0:50.7	Tees and sees apply.
0:51.6	Check the Uber app.
0:58.6	Thanks to everyone who supports independent tech news directly.
1:01.6	If you're not already, become a DTS member.
1:09.2	That's DTS member at patreon.T.N.S. member at Patreon.com slash D.T.N.S. This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, December 5th, 2018 in Los Angeles, I'm Tom Merritt.
1:13.5	And from Studio Feline, I'm Sarah Lane.
1:15.9	And from, I can't get my letters right, I'm Scott Johnson.
1:18.8	And I'm Roger Jay.
1:21.5	He's the show's producer. I'm the show's producer. I'm the show's producer at a very overcast corner of LA County.
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