Episode
Why Do We Fear Waymos More Than We Fear Bad Drivers
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- Talk Cocktail
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- May 16, 2026
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- 1997
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On this California Sun Podcast I’m joined by William Riggs , a professor of engineering and management at the University of San Francisco and an expert on transportation innovation. He expalins how San Francisco — now ground zero for America’s autonomous vehicle future, with more than 1,000 Waymos on its streets — is exposing a strange contradiction: Society tolerates the deadly carnage caused by human drivers while holding self-driving cars to an impossible standard, even as the data increasingly suggests the technology will save lives. Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe