A biometric smart gun with Kai Kloepfer of Biofire
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Hello and welcome to How I Built This Lab. I'm Guy Raz. So if you've listened to the lab edition of this podcast before, you've probably noticed that I often talk to founders who are working on Bold and innovative solutions to big problems that we face as a society. These founders are trying to address issues like unequal access to health care, pollution, food safety, and of course climate change. And again, on the show today, I'm talking to someone working on a big problem, but it's one that we haven't discussed before. In the United States, in 2021, According to the CDC.
Almost 49,000 people died from gun related injuries, and in 2020, Sed car accidents as the leading cause of death among children and teens. Now, no one thinks this epidemic of gun violence is a good thing, but meaningful ways to reduce gun violence have been really difficult to achieve. Gun policy is a third rail issue in American politics and society, and there are plenty of reasons which we won't go into today. While many people feel like making progress in this area. is almost impossible.
But Kai Klopfer doesn't think so. His startup, Biofire, is focused on developing a smart gun, a firearm, that's impossible to use if it's not unlocked by the owner's biometrics. And by the way, this idea isn't new, companies have tried versions of it before and totally failed. And Kai thinks that's largely because the technology wasn't good enough or didn't exist. Now Kai's goal for the Biofire smart gun isn't to eliminate gun violence, but he does think that it might reduce accidental gun injuries and deaths, as well as gun suicides among adolescents.
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