Ian and Jesse discuss the future of autonomous, self-driving vehicles. They're coming faster than anyone imagined, and they will have many large effects on society, both good and bad. What are some of the more creative ways we can find to use driverless cars, and how can we best deal with the loss of driving jobs?

 

Links to topics discussed:

Fully self driving Teslas

Interplanetary Transport System - full video with Q&A

Tesla's solar roof tiles

Wired article on self-driving car levels

Google cars

Brad Templeton UBC talk

CGP Grey video on traffic jams

Google self driving promo video

Otto beer delivery

Most common jobs by state

Udacity degree on self driving cars

Cracked podcast - the 11 nations of America

 

Theme music, used with permission, by Jonathan Coulton.