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Greg Murphy: Kiwi motorsport driver on Tesla launching its Full Self-Driving service in New Zealand · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Self driving cars are no longer a thing of the future.
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  Speaker 2: In New Zealand. Tesla has switched on their full self
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  Speaker 2: driving feature for the country overnight, which means we will
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  Speaker 2: now have motorists with their hands off the wheel potentially
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  Speaker 2: on our oads. Greg Murphy is a key WE motorsport
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  Speaker 2: champ and a road safety advocate and with us. Hey Greg, Hi,
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  Speaker 2: how are you well but a bit nervous about this?
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  Speaker 2: How about you?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think you've sort of got to read the
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  Speaker 3: fine for a little bit too. I think it's actually
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  Speaker 3: quite convoluted in how Tesler have come out with this
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  Speaker 3: full self driving supervised in brackets. It does not make
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  Speaker 3: the car autonomous and is intended to be used only
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  Speaker 3: with a full attentive driver. So I'm a little confused
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  Speaker 3: by there's been sort of systems and some cars Tesla's
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  Speaker 3: predominantly for a little while that you know, allow people
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  Speaker 3: to take their hands off the wheel and pieces. But
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  Speaker 3: it concerns me greatly. You've got to pay for this though, either,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's a money making schemes cheap, no surprise,
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  Speaker 3: no surprise whatsoever that it's money making scheme for Tesla.
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  Speaker 3: So one hundred and fifty five per month subscription for
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  Speaker 3: model three and why vehicles. I'm concerned that people are
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  Speaker 3: going to do this because they think it's cool and
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  Speaker 3: they think that's you know, it's a bit of a
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  Speaker 3: fad thing.
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  Speaker 4: Again.
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  Speaker 3: It's like I want to be the first to have
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  Speaker 3: it be able to drive around or have my car
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  Speaker 3: drive me around with the hands.
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  Speaker 4: Off the wheel. It really concerns me greatly.
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  Speaker 3: To be fair, I mean, Tesla have got a haven't
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  Speaker 3: got a clean record when it comes to their autonomous
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  Speaker 3: vehicles around the world, with a few lawsuits that have
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  Speaker 3: taken place in various places. So the best way to
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  Speaker 3: be in a car if you are behind the steering
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  Speaker 3: wheel is to be in control and be paying attention.
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  Speaker 4: They are sort of saying, oh, well.
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  Speaker 3: This makes it easier, safer, less stressful, like cruise control
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  Speaker 3: on steroids. To me, it sounds dangerous and very risky
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  Speaker 3: and it concerns me greatly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love the sound of it. Okay, what are
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  Speaker 2: the rules? I mean, does the road rule that do
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  Speaker 2: the road lives here in New Zealand actually allow for
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  Speaker 2: you to be in control of the vehicle with your
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  Speaker 2: hands off the wheel.
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  Speaker 3: That is a very good question that I don't have
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  Speaker 3: the detail on, and I'm picking based on when I
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  Speaker 3: spoke to you producer earlier. No one seems to know
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  Speaker 3: and no one seems to want to comment on it
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  Speaker 3: from a regulatory perspective, So I don't know if there
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  Speaker 3: is something written about it or not. But being that
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  Speaker 3: the government hasn't seen anything in ZTA, hasn't send anything,
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  Speaker 3: mot isn't said anything. Do they even know this was happening?
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  Speaker 3: Is it allowed to actually happen. I'm not really sure
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  Speaker 3: of what the regulations and rules say about this, But
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  Speaker 3: as I said, you know, we've got enough issues and
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  Speaker 3: they're probably claiming that this is going to make it
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  Speaker 3: safe because our cars and our cameras and the technology
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  Speaker 3: is going to be take some of that risk away
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  Speaker 3: from drivers that you know, are you know that do
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  Speaker 3: make mistakes, aren't attentive, aren't focused, and are distracted, so
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  Speaker 3: let's let the car do that.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm not convinced.
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  Speaker 3: That that is the way to go about it, you know,
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  Speaker 3: And again it says you need to be attentive.
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  Speaker 4: There's a whole loer of rules written in the.
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  Speaker 3: Article about what you've got to do and what the
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  Speaker 3: car will tell you to do if it sensors that
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  Speaker 3: you're not being intentive. So a little bit of information
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  Speaker 3: and a little bit of knowledge by some people could
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  Speaker 3: be very, very dangerous if they're expecting that this is
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  Speaker 3: going to do something that it actually doesn't do. And
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  Speaker 3: again that's a problem because a lot of technology and
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  Speaker 3: cars these days, people understand a little bit about they
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  Speaker 3: rely on it and they shouldn't rely on it, and
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  Speaker 3: that's because we don't train, we don't prepare people for
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  Speaker 3: these things and so that they understand what they've actually got.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Greg, thanks well, said Greg murphy Ke we motorsport
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  Speaker 2: champion and road safety advocate. Yeah. So we call the police,
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  Speaker 2: and we call the NZTA, we called the Ministry of Transport,
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  Speaker 2: we called the AA and none of them wanted to
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  Speaker 2: talk about this and we're not clear why, but it
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  Speaker 2: may be a lack of understanding about the rules as
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  Speaker 2: possibly part of it.
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