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Andrew Miller

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
434 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

I don't know.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

I think there's going to be so much money to be made on the robo-taxi side that there's got to be some sort of deal that can be made to make some of the people who are going to lose out whole.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

Now, we've seen in urban spaces, because it is owning a car...

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

in a place like Manhattan is such a pain in the neck.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

More and more younger people are choosing to forego a car.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

They're not even getting driver's licenses.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

There are always going to be people who want to own their own car.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

I think young parents will always want their own car to move their kids around.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

Workers, they're going to want tools to carry from the job.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

They're going to want their own vehicle to do that.

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Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

The objective is not a world where no one doesn't

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

That's just where you don't need to own as many as you do now.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

I think it is a plausible corollary.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

I don't think it's in the near or even the medium term, but this century, assuming we don't have some sort of catastrophe, could that happen?

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

Absolutely, it could.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

But I think it would be so gradual because Tesla's ambitions aside, I think private cars are going to have steering wheels for decades to come.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

They're just going to have sophisticated driver assist systems or even self-driving, but only in cars.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

Like, only on the highway or only during the day.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

I think what will happen is, is that you will be expected to use such systems when you can.

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Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

And if you choose not to and you get an accident, your insurance might say, well, our policy says that you have to rely on the systems in situations where it's appropriate.