Andrea Jones-Rooy

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1,079 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5 Sep

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · The Skeptics Guide #978 - Apr 6 2024 podcast

They want the state secrets from Jay and me.

I think my bias is if the Novella brothers will do it, I'll come.

I don't know if I would do it on my own.

Shots fired at Instacart, but okay, yeah.

I mean, one of the things that actually is sort of heartening about it being in New York City, and I guess it depends on where in the city, like I would hope it would stay off of the highways, sort of the FDR and the West Side Highway, because most of the time, especially in high traffic periods, cars are going very slowly.

The concern, obviously, is that they would hit pedestrians.

But if anything, I would hope that they would engineer them in such a way that they'd be too cautious around pedestrians and then just never go.

And that would be the main reason traffic progresses during rush hour is because some dude decides that he's going to run a red light even though he really shouldn't because the pedestrian's about to take over.

And so if the cars are more cautious, we're actually probably going to get more traffic, which is a good problem to have compared to cars recklessly sprinting up and down these streets.

If anything, I think that the high density might be...

Right.

I don't drive very often.

I don't have a car, but I am definitely part of the problem in that I will do the last minute get to the left lane so I can turn without having to wait or slow anyone down.

And, you know, oh, it's yellow, but I'm going to go through because otherwise I'll sit there forever.

It's no good.

And if everyone drives like me, you're going to be in a place.

I used to say that when I was living in China, I was like, everyone in China drives like me and that's bad.

And so there's chaos all the time.

And so you're right.

I think there would be a threshold effect after which we would all be really following the rules and it could actually be more orderly.

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