FULL EPISODE: Driverless Cars, Maybe Not Driverless - February 12, 2026
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Unfiltered discussions.
What new features does Google offer for removing personal information?
Unexpected guests. No topic is off-limits. From sex and relationships to the human condition. Personal anxieties and so much more. The only talk show of its kind in the world. World This Is. Hi, welcome. Great lineup for you tonight. This is the last show, but it's not the last last show, but it's tonight's last show. Here's what you'll learn on the program. Self-driving taxis, they're on the roads, but what if they secretly use humans to pilot them? If that's the case, how autonomous are they really? In 10 minutes time, we'll ask if self-driving Waymo cars are independent geniuses or just really confident office workers with a joystick. Then after that, for young people who struggle with their parents, their families, they say that these relationships cause them trouble.
They're toxic. One common piece of advice is to go no contact or at least low contact. Well, what if that's not the best idea? That's a question we'll explore later in the hour. Don't forget to follow this program on social media at lastshow.pizza on all your favorite platforms like Instagram, TikTok, YouTube.
How are smart devices being misused for stalking?
Anyway, we'd better dive in. part of the last show with David Cooper? Call us and join the conversation. 1-888-505-6644. If you've ever Googled yourself and you didn't quite like what you found, maybe personal information on the internet that you wish wasn't there, your address, your phone number, maybe images of you. Historically, Google wouldn't really take that stuff down unless you did some wacky legal stuff to them. But now it seems like they are allowing users to take off personal information from search results. Let's talk about this here with Carmi Levy, a tech analyst. It is time for technology time. Carmi, welcome in.
What happens when Waymo driverless cars encounter difficulties?
Good to be with you. Thanks so much for having me, David. I kind of buried the lead. This also goes for like explicit pictures, which I think, you know, average people... due to an unfortunate set of circumstances like revenge, pornography, this kind of thing, can find awful stuff on the internet publicly available and a Google who has historically, in some cases, not taken that stuff down. It looks like they're doing a 180 on this one.
Yeah, finally. I mean, yeah, non-consensual explicit images are rampant online. And in many cases, the victims did not intend for them to be online.
Why should you reconsider cutting off contact with parents?
They were posted by someone, perhaps a vengeful ex or someone else, a cyber criminal. And so they find when, you know, when you go searching for your name, suddenly this thing pops up and you realize it's incredibly damaging. And so they're building it into the features called results about you. And whenever you search for an image, if you feel that it is, it qualifies as that you can have Google, you can ask them to remove it from their index so that when someone searches, it will not show up in a Google search. Now, The fine line here is that the original image will still be online. It's just that Google will not find it when you search for it. That's the key difference. You still have to go to the original website, the original platform to have it removed.
How does growing up with pets affect children's mental health?
But at least it's a lot harder for somebody to find. It does a lot more to protect you from ensuring that other people will not see this content.
There was an irony, a perverse irony that existed. In the US, at least, there's something called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. And it's basically so like musicians can, if my song ends up on YouTube, I can ask YouTube to take it down because it's my copyrighted creative work. So if I was an adult entertainer, let's say I had an OnlyFans or something and I posted explicit photos of myself, that's a copyrightable creative work. So if I was a professional adult entertainer, I could say, hey, Google, take down these copyrighted images and Google would do it. But if I was just like a private person whose photos ended up on the Internet, it would be so difficult to take down. To me, that's so wild that someone who does it professionally, who I guess wouldn't care if the world saw it, they could take it down.
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Chapters
8 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:03
2
What new features does Google offer for removing personal information?
0:03–1:16
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How are smart devices being misused for stalking?
1:16–1:59
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What happens when Waymo driverless cars encounter difficulties?
1:59–2:31
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Why should you reconsider cutting off contact with parents?
2:31–3:21
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How does growing up with pets affect children's mental health?
3:21–4:17
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What does the macho face ratio theory entail?
4:17–5:20
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How do dogs react to human emotions in voices?
5:20–1:20:08
Speakers
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