What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - America’s Killer Car Problem | 2023 In Review
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🗓️ 29 December 2023
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While the What Next: TBD team spends some time with their families during the holidays, we revisit some of 2023’s biggest, strangest, and best stories. Regularly scheduled programming resumes in January.
Pedestrian deaths in America have been rising for the last decade, while dropping in Europe and Japan. What makes the U.S. so dangerous for pedestrians?
Guest: Jessie Singer, author of There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster―Who Profits and Who Pays the Price.
Originally aired July 16th, 2023.
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| 0:26.0 | Hey everyone, Emily Peck here with What Next TBD, closing out 2023. |
| 0:36.0 | It's been a wild year, folks, especially for tech. |
| 0:40.0 | We saw AI finally break through to the mainstream. |
| 0:43.2 | Cryptostar or former star, |
| 0:45.3 | Sam Bankman Freed was put on trial and convicted. |
| 0:48.7 | And I mean so much Elon Musk drama. |
| 0:52.0 | But now it's the holidays and TBD is taking a break from the news to |
| 0:55.3 | look back at the year. We'll return with new episodes in January and in the meantime |
| 0:59.7 | here's one of our favorite episodes from 2023. |
| 1:02.7 | We hope you enjoy. |
| 1:06.3 | Last year marked a grim milestone in the US. |
| 1:09.2 | A report in June from the Governor's Highway Safety Association found that 2022 was the deadliest |
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