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12 Jul 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting
“Metropolitan Street Racer on the Dreamcast was one of those games that really sucked me into … It was the precursor to Project Gotham, which was the precursor to essentially, Forza Horizon, I think.”
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…All right. Like you mentioned, you like to race cars and you do it at a world-class competitive level, which is incredible. So how’d you get into it? What attracts you to racing? What do you love about it? The funny thing about getting into racing is I did not get my driver’s license until I was 25. I grew up in Copenhagen, Denmark where the tax on cars is basically over 200%. So you pay for three cars and you get one, and I didn’t even have the money for one car, let alone three. So I could not afford a car growing up. We did not have a car growing up, but Copenhagen is a nice city to be able to get around on a bike or with a bus or as I did for a long period of time, on rollerblades. But when I was 25, I realized I wanted to spend more time in the U.S. I wasn’t sure yet that I was going to move there. That turned out later to be true, but I knew that if I wanted to spend time in the U.S., I needed to have a driver’s license. I was not going to get around very well if I didn’t know how to drive a car. So I got a driver’s license at 25. Then ended up moving to the U.S. later that year, and I’d always been into video games, racing video games. Metropolitan Street Racer on the Dreamcast was one of those games that really sucked me into … It was the precursor to Project Gotham, which was the precursor to essentially, Forza Horizon, I think. Oh, okay.…
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