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Andrew Miller

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
434 total appearances

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Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

Right.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

So it's not going to go away overnight.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

It'll be incremental.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

And I still think that's to the good as those systems get better and better.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

Once it reaches a point where it can drive better than us in all scenarios, why wouldn't we want that?

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

I cannot say that I do.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

Well, some of what is lost is what you've just described.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

It is a very American thing, the romance of the road, freedom, independence, the ability to go where you want and be in control of it.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

There's another angle to it.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

We don't have in contemporary liberal America rights of passage for young people anymore.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

We don't have many of them.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

One of them used to be learning to drive.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

It was a sign that you are an adult.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

We trust you with this very dangerous piece of machinery.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

And when you can do it, you know that you've arrived.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

And it's also, you know, what I suppose a philosopher would call embodied knowledge.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

You aren't just a brain.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

You're also moving this thing, and so you have to pay attention.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

You've got to have good reflexes.

Hard Fork
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?

These are valuable things.