What Next TBD: Self-Driving Cars Crash Into Reality

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🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In August, California regulators voted to allow self-driving car companies like Cruise and Waymo to expand their operations and start offering robotaxi services. After a litany of questionable behaviors ranging from the annoying to terrifying, the California DMV has suspended Cruise’s permits, effective immediately. Is this just a temporary setback, or is the driverless future further off than it looked just a few months ago? Guest: David Zipper, visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There are days when you're hungry for McDonald's.
0:03.8	Then there are days when you're Big Arch hungry for McDonald's.
0:08.1	You'll get to know the difference.
0:09.9	New Big Arch for Big McDonald's hunger.
0:15.4	Until 9th of September from 11 a.m.,
0:17.7	participating restaurants only, subject to availability.
0:20.9	Hey guys, it's Lizzie. Sorry about my scratchy voice. It is cold season. Please bear with me.
0:31.1	I get updated with a developing story out of San Francisco this morning. A hit-and-run driver struck a woman on Market Street, and then a driverless car ran over her.
0:40.3	This was the police.
0:40.8	The crash took place on October 2nd in downtown San Francisco.
0:45.5	After the hit-and-run driver left, the woman was somehow pinned underneath a cruise
0:50.7	autonomous vehicle.
0:52.6	You can hear the horror in the voice of this paratransit driver, Lee Goines, when he describes
0:57.7	finding her.
0:58.7	I stoop down, you know, and I started to find out what I did this person.
1:03.7	Look, hello, lo, you okay, okay?
1:05.3	Then the person started moaning.
1:06.3	As you see, that's still blood here.
1:07.7	The person started moaning, and then I raise up, and I start yelling.
1:11.5	Anybody called the police? Anybody called the police?
1:14.2	The woman was eventually freed using the jaws of life, and is reportedly still in the hospital.
1:20.8	But what we didn't know until this week is that the cruise car did not just stop on top of her
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