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PJ Vogt

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Freakonomics Radio
Are Human Drivers Finally Obsolete?

Each one of the routes was unique and distinct and different and had its own challenges.

Freakonomics Radio
Are Human Drivers Finally Obsolete?

Down Route 1, Silicon Valley to Carmel.

Freakonomics Radio
Are Human Drivers Finally Obsolete?

The bridges run.

Freakonomics Radio
Are Human Drivers Finally Obsolete?

We had to go across all of the bridges in the Bay Area, starting in Mountain View, finishing crossing the Golden Gate Bridge.

Freakonomics Radio
Are Human Drivers Finally Obsolete?

It's Chris Hermson in the car.

Freakonomics Radio
Are Human Drivers Finally Obsolete?

It's Anthony Lewandowski in the car.

Freakonomics Radio
Are Human Drivers Finally Obsolete?

I was in the car with Dimitri, Chris, and Anthony.

Freakonomics Radio
Are Human Drivers Finally Obsolete?

It was the four of us in the Prius.

Freakonomics Radio
Are Human Drivers Finally Obsolete?

They were figuring out the technology much faster than they thought they could.

Freakonomics Radio
Are Human Drivers Finally Obsolete?

The Larry 1K was set up like a video game, meaning they'd get to try the route over and over until they could complete it without a single human takeover.

Freakonomics Radio
Are Human Drivers Finally Obsolete?

Then they'd move on to the next one.

Freakonomics Radio
Are Human Drivers Finally Obsolete?

When they fail a route, they know what the car can't handle, so they go back and say...

Freakonomics Radio
Are Human Drivers Finally Obsolete?

You have to be better at doing X, Y, Z. And then we got back to the office.

Freakonomics Radio
Are Human Drivers Finally Obsolete?

We regrouped.

Freakonomics Radio
Are Human Drivers Finally Obsolete?

We went back out, I think, at like 11 p.m.

Freakonomics Radio
Are Human Drivers Finally Obsolete?

And by 1 a.m., we had completed the route.

Freakonomics Radio
Are Human Drivers Finally Obsolete?

They buy a bottle of Korbel champagne.

Freakonomics Radio
Are Human Drivers Finally Obsolete?

They all write their names on it.

Freakonomics Radio
Are Human Drivers Finally Obsolete?

Korbel, $13.99 a bottle.

Freakonomics Radio
Are Human Drivers Finally Obsolete?

The champagne they have at Trader Joe's.