{"id":680,"slug":"self-driving-cars","name":"self-driving cars","type":"concept","created_at":"2026-08-08T04:37:39.307179+00:00","hidden":0,"aliases":[],"episodes":[{"id":"f1488de1-db96-4729-a480-4fa3ca7fdac4","slug":"s17e09-what-does-it-take-to-trust-the-young-ladys","subject":"s17e09: What does it take to trust?; The Young Lady’s Illustrated Tour Guide","title":"What does it take to trust?; The Young Lady’s Illustrated Tour Guide","publish_date":"2024-02-13T03:38:55.061867+00:00","year":2024,"month":2,"season":17,"episode":9,"episode_label":"s17e09","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s17e09-what-does-it-take-to-trust-the-young-ladys/","is_premium":0,"word_count":2423,"context":" … It might even make\nfewer\nmistakes than a human, but this again is straying into the “<mark>self-driving cars</mark> are safer than humans driving cars because humans get … ","reading_minutes":12},{"id":"9926e6d0-9be3-40fc-9803-41efe91c0a43","slug":"s07extra02-some-things","subject":"s07extra02: Some things","title":"Some things","publish_date":"2019-10-04T21:33:26.759000+00:00","year":2019,"month":10,"season":7,"episode":2,"episode_label":"s07extra02","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s07extra02-some-things/","is_premium":1,"word_count":2334,"context":" … There’s a good Washington Post story about how some residents of Silicon Valley\naren’t too keen on <mark>self-driving cars</mark> being beta-tested in their neighborhoods … ","reading_minutes":12},{"id":"8f65a0f5-f890-4a73-ad58-6ecbbe741a86","slug":"s3e11-gigawatt-laser-array","subject":"s3e11: Gigawatt Laser Array","title":"Gigawatt Laser Array","publish_date":"2016-04-12T00:00:00+00:00","year":2016,"month":4,"season":3,"episode":11,"episode_label":"s03e11","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s3e11-gigawatt-laser-array/","is_premium":0,"word_count":1296,"context":" … 2014, so is a bit behind the times by only talking about <mark>self-driving cars</mark>, tiny fusion reactors (arc reactors, right?), and the whole shtick about \"a world … ","reading_minutes":6},{"id":"419b6421-bdae-47df-a965-4a2ddd0589f7","slug":"episode-one-hundred-and-fifty-here-in-my-car","subject":"Episode One Hundred And Fifty: Here In My Car","title":"Here In My Car","publish_date":"2014-08-26T00:00:00+00:00","year":2014,"month":8,"season":null,"episode":150,"episode_label":"episode 150","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/episode-one-hundred-and-fifty-here-in-my-car/","is_premium":0,"word_count":1447,"context":" … I imagine that a similar situation might happen with <mark>self-driving cars</mark>: that we'll always imagine them to be about forty years away, and then wake up … ","reading_minutes":7},{"id":"28d4d97f-5dcc-4aa6-9831-d3edaf6bb851","slug":"episode-one-hundred-and-forty-five-up-to-code","subject":"Episode One Hundred and Forty Five: Up To Code; Science Fictional Network Security; Notes on Infrastructure; Response; 2014 (5)","title":"Up To Code; Science Fictional Network Security; Notes on Infrastructure; Response; 2014 (5)","publish_date":"2014-08-19T00:00:00+00:00","year":2014,"month":8,"season":null,"episode":145,"episode_label":"episode 145","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/episode-one-hundred-and-forty-five-up-to-code/","is_premium":0,"word_count":2042,"context":" … Autonomous, <mark>self-driving cars</mark> commonly use a range-finding system that uses laser light to provide three hundred and sixty degrees of depth data at up to 15 … ","reading_minutes":10},{"id":"cc0c5f3e-b7dd-4cb2-a6b8-27bbc4bdf92e","slug":"episode-one-hundred-and-five-this-incredible","subject":"Episode One Hundred and Five: This Incredible Journey; What Comes First; Who Owns The Robots","title":"This Incredible Journey; What Comes First; Who Owns The Robots","publish_date":"2014-06-19T00:00:00+00:00","year":2014,"month":6,"season":null,"episode":105,"episode_label":"episode 105","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/episode-one-hundred-and-five-this-incredible/","is_premium":0,"word_count":2882,"context":" … It does it in the long-term where Uber's CEO, Travis Kalanick, admits that of course Uber's future is in <mark>self-driving cars</mark>.\nThe kind of … ","reading_minutes":14},{"id":"dc3129df-84eb-4695-99f2-1ccd091846c0","slug":"episode-one-hundred-and-four-the-new-jobs","subject":"Episode One Hundred and Four: The New Jobs; Disrupting Bitcoin; Protect Us; The Full Stack Is Better?; Dumb Screens","title":"The New Jobs; Disrupting Bitcoin; Protect Us; The Full Stack Is Better?; Dumb Screens","publish_date":"2014-06-18T00:00:00+00:00","year":2014,"month":6,"season":null,"episode":104,"episode_label":"episode 104","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/episode-one-hundred-and-four-the-new-jobs/","is_premium":0,"word_count":3088,"context":" … We get <mark>self-driving cars</mark>. We get, gosh, so many things. We get it all! In one place!\n\nI wish I had something more constructive to say than … ","reading_minutes":15},{"id":"3dfbd0ea-65ce-4509-80de-7d484351f8be","slug":"episode-ninety-one-disruption-supply-chains-the","subject":"Episode Ninety One: Disruption; Supply Chains; The Good Bit","title":"Disruption; Supply Chains; The Good Bit","publish_date":"2014-05-30T00:00:00+00:00","year":2014,"month":5,"season":null,"episode":91,"episode_label":"episode 91","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/episode-ninety-one-disruption-supply-chains-the/","is_premium":0,"word_count":926,"context":" … First, some data points:\n\n- Uber obviously wants to replace all of its drivers with <mark>self-driving cars</mark>[1]\n- Google is designing <mark>self driving cars</mark> / autonomous transport units[2 … ","reading_minutes":5},{"id":"2fd73f3c-7768-404f-bfd2-9686260c3093","slug":"episode-eighty-seven-robots-smart-things-college","subject":"Episode Eighty Seven: Robots; Smart Things; College; Wintermute","title":"Robots; Smart Things; College; Wintermute","publish_date":"2014-05-24T00:00:00+00:00","year":2014,"month":5,"season":null,"episode":87,"episode_label":"episode 87","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/episode-eighty-seven-robots-smart-things-college/","is_premium":0,"word_count":1646,"context":" … now we see that a lot of the smarts in Google's <mark>self-driving cars</mark> reside in the network - which makes sense - rather than in the car) the … ","reading_minutes":8},{"id":"840c972b-cd5b-4a4b-9d02-b07c94671e60","slug":"episode-seven-rate-all-the-things","subject":"Episode Seven: Rate All The Things","title":"Rate All The Things","publish_date":"2014-01-31T00:00:00+00:00","year":2014,"month":1,"season":null,"episode":7,"episode_label":"episode 7","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/episode-seven-rate-all-the-things/","is_premium":0,"word_count":1581,"context":" … remember those <mark>self-driving cars</mark>? Here's a patent[2] (which, to be fair, doesn't have to be used - it's just been awarded[3]) for an … ","reading_minutes":8}]}