Search Engine Presents: Are you a good driver?
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Hey there, Odd Thoughts listeners. I'm Tracy Allaway.
And I'm Jill Weisenthal.
And we wanna welcome you to a special presentation of the podcast Search Engine. We all know that artificial intelligence might replace all sorts of jobs humans do today, but for most of us, that's still mostly theoretical. There's one job, though, where robots are already taking the wheel, and that is driving.
In fact, it's one of the most common jobs in America for young men without college degrees. And over the course of two episodes, Search Engine tackles both the promise and the peril of this growing technology.
In part one, are you a good driver? The Search Engine team tells the story of how a small secret team at Google spent fifteen years teaching a computer to drive. From a failed robot in the Mojave Desert to a vehicle that might actually be the safest on the road, this episode tracks the engineering breakthroughs, the near catastrophes, and takes a skeptical look at the safety data behind Waymo's claim that its cars are 90% safer than human drivers in serious crashes.
All of it boils down to one big question. Are the robots actually safer drivers than we are? Enjoy this presentation of Search Engine, and be sure to catch part two titled the trial of the driverless car available wherever you get your podcasts.
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