The robot cars are already here and they're not ready
About this episode
The episode discusses the challenges faced by driverless cars during the Fourth of July fireworks in San Francisco and features insights from NYU professor Gary Marcus.
Turns out, driverless cars don’t like fireworks. On the Fourth of July, a hundred thousand people poured out of San Francisco’s fireworks show at once. Robotaxis in the area went haywire. Some froze in intersections. Others drove over live fireworks. And it made us think of an earlier conversation we’d had with NYU professor Gary Marcus about what happens when machines trained on a predictable world encounter the real one. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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