Living with Self-Driving Cars (with Bike Curious)

For most of us, autonomous vehicles are this nebulous concept that might appear some time in our future, but there are other people living with this reality today - whether they like it or not. In this episode, I talk to Jon from the Twitch channel Bike Curious about what it's like to live in San Francisco, where autonomous vehicles are around you every single day and there's nothing you can do about it - except put a traffic cone on their hood.Driverless car startup Cruise's no good, terrible yearhttps://www.npr.org/2023/12/30/1222083720/driverless-cars-gm-cruise-waymo-san-francisco-accidentsDriverless Car Gets Stuck in Wet Concrete in San Franciscohttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/us/driverless-car-accident-sf.htmlWaymo robotaxi accident with San Francisco cyclist draws regulatory reviewhttps://www.reuters.com/world/us/driverless-waymo-car-hits-cyclist-san-francisco-causes-minor-scratches-2024-02-07/Dead-End SF Street Plagued With Confused Waymo Cars Trying To Turn Around 'Every 5 Minutes'https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/dead-end-sf-street-plagued-with-confused-waymo-cars-trying-to-turn-around-every-5-minutes/Cruise vehicle gets stuck in wet concrete while driving in San Franciscohttps://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/cruise-stuck-wet-concrete-sf-18297946.phpDirectly support the production of this podcast, and listen to every episode early (and without ads!) by subscribing to Nebula: https://nebula.tv/agendaBike Curious: https://twitch.tv/bikecuriousNot Just Bikes: https://nebula.tv/notjustbikesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.