Ideas / Search Engine: AI in the Wild
Are You a Good Driver?
Search Engine with PJ Vogt
The history of driverless cars becomes a concrete test of whether statistical safety is enough reason to delegate consequential judgment.
The episode traces a secret Google project into driverless cars operating on public roads, then asks the uncomfortable question hiding behind the statistics: are the robots actually safer drivers than we are?
Driving makes the agency debate pleasantly difficult to keep abstract. Judgment becomes braking distance, liability, street design, and the moment a person discovers the steering wheel is mostly ceremonial.