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How I Built This with Guy Raz

HIBT Lab! Cruise: Kyle Vogt

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

Business

4.831.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Most of us are familiar with rideshare apps at this point. We tap a few buttons on a phone and...voila! A vehicle arrives to take you virtually anywhere you want to go. But what if these vehicles could operate entirely without a human driver? Will we one day live in a world where most cars drive themselves?

Kyle Vogt believes that autonomous vehicles will fundamentally change how we get from place to place, and soon! After being part of the team that launched the video game streaming platform Twitch, Kyle charted a new course in 2013 by founding Cruise, which was acquired by General Motors just three years later.

This week on How I Built This Lab, Kyle talks with Guy about the process of building a fleet of fully driverless ‘robo taxis’—which are now available for service in San Francisco and coming to more cities across the U.S.. Plus, the two discuss the potential of autonomous vehicles to reduce the alarming number of vehicle-related fatalities and injuries experienced every year.



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0:00.0

What is actually going on with the economy nowadays?

0:04.4

The price of gas, inflation?

0:06.5

Are we in a recession?

0:08.2

I'm Jeff Quo, co-host of NPR's Planet Money.

0:11.2

Come along with our super team of econ experts

0:14.1

as we delve into the stories that show you

0:16.2

how the world really works.

0:18.6

That's Planet Money from NPR.

0:23.8

Hello and welcome to How I Built This Lab.

0:26.2

I'm Guy Ross.

0:27.4

So a few weeks ago, I had a chance to go for a ride

0:30.7

in a driverless car.

0:32.4

And I don't mean the hands-free driving on a highway

0:35.6

like what's available in a Tesla or in a bunch

0:38.2

of other new cars right now.

0:39.8

I mean, I got into the backseat of a car

0:41.9

and there was no one in the front seat.

0:44.0

The car drove completely by itself.

0:47.3

And this wasn't on some closed course.

0:49.6

This was right in the middle of the city of San Francisco

0:52.4

with other cars in the road and pedestrian cyclists

0:55.7

and all the distractions at any human driver might face.

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