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What’s Lost When the Human Drivers Are Gone?
This week on "Uncanny Valley," we look ahead into a future where driverless cars are mainstream.
Does that factor in what they're paying to have people at a call center answering phones related to Waymo or infrastructure or the lobbying they have to do to influence regulations in different cities or states on a federal level? Aarian Marshall: The stuff I'm really interested in terms of the future of self-driving is pretty nerdy, but something that comes up a lot when I talk to researchers, which is I think these cars have a real opportunity to totally change the way our cities work, for better or for worse. The sort of hell situation is that these rides are so cheap that everyone takes self-driving cars everywhere, and then we spend the rest of our lives trapped in endless gridlock and we sleep and pee and do all of our work in our little own pods, and it's like, WALL-E, and that's horrifying to me.
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