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13 Jun 2023 Acquired Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi
“There's this pretty interesting philosophical question, which is, how safe does a robot have to be? In the US, I think there are 40,000 deaths as a result of car accidents.”
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- 13 Jun 2023
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- Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi
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…More lightning round. I remember hearing in 2013 that it was cool that I was in 2013 because 2014, one year away, was going to be the year of self-driving cars. Here we are in 2023. Is next year the year? How close are we? It's an unanswerable question. It is because there's the last 2% of use cases, the tail use cases. It's unknowable what it will take to get past that last 2%. There's this pretty interesting philosophical question, which is, how safe does a robot have to be? In the US, I think there are 40,000 deaths as a result of car accidents. Let's say that robot cars are 10 times safer. I think that highway accidents are one of the top two or three causes of death in the United States, period, so something 10 times safer.…
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