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Would You Trust a Car With No Steering Wheel?
The pitch is a future where you just sit back and let the car drive. In this clip we ask the obvious question: what happens when it gets it wrong?
Malcolm and Thomas get into the safety concerns around autonomous vehicles — especially the ones being built with no manual controls at all, no wheel, no pedals, no backup. Both of them are skeptical of how reliable self-driving tech really is right now, and they get into the risks of rolling it out at scale: the edge cases, the unpredictable human behavior these systems have to account for, and what it means to hand over that much control before…
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