Are Human Drivers Finally Obsolete?
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PJ, how have you been? I've been good. How have you been? Yeah, I'm a little better now having listened to your series. I love it.
Oh, thank you. Do you recognize that voice? It is PJ Vogt, host of the podcast Search Engine and friend of Freekonomics Radio. You may remember hearing him back in 2024 when we published a search engine episode called The Fascinatingly Mundane Secrets of the World's Most. exclusive nightclub about Berghain in Berlin.
That was a great story and not too long ago PJ came to us with another one. It's a two-part series on driverless cars. This is a topic that we have touched on many times over the years at Freekonomics Radio, but PJ decided to go deep. The other day I had a chance to ask him how he got interested in this. There's a whole lesson in this, but I'd gotten, and this is not the Nike sentence you're gonna expect me to say
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