1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand. 2 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:08,200 Speaker 2: Lou Penrose with you till ten o'clock. Thank you for 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 2: tuning in. Good to have you along with us on 4 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:15,319 Speaker 2: a Wednesday night, warm Wednesday out there feels like we're 5 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:18,760 Speaker 2: in spring. But the groundhog said we're gonna have six 6 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:21,440 Speaker 2: more weeks of winter. So I don't know what's going on, 7 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 2: but it's a nice night to be outside, beautiful here 8 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 2: in Burbank. All right, I'm here to tell you that 9 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 2: the driverless cars are coming. They're absolutely coming. I had 10 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:38,280 Speaker 2: I was meeting with a bunch of people and Steve 11 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 2: Wozniak was there. Back when I was working in Congress, 12 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:44,239 Speaker 2: I was a staffer for a member of Congress. There 13 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:47,839 Speaker 2: was some technological issue come up, and a bunch of 14 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 2: us were meeting with him and he was sharing his 15 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:51,240 Speaker 2: thoughts on it. It was just one of those things. 16 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 2: Steve Wozniak, as you may or may not know, one 17 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 2: of the founder's original founders of Apple Computers, big tech guy, 18 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 2: high thing. And after the meeting was over, we were 19 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:07,320 Speaker 2: just chatting and I remember him saying, this was like 20 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 2: in twenty twelve. He said, the driverless cars have to 21 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:14,959 Speaker 2: come have to come. It's not a matter of convenience. 22 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 2: They have to come for public safety. And I said why. 23 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 2: He said, because the human brain is a terrible processor. 24 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 2: And I thought, this is a guy that knows about 25 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 2: computer processors. And he went on to explain that we 26 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 2: are terrible at when you consider what it takes to 27 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 2: drive efficiently and safely, there's so much human that gets 28 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 2: in the way, Like would you rather have doctor Spock 29 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 2: drive the car or doctor McCoy And that's what he said, 30 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 2: and he's right. You don't want human emotion to get 31 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 2: in the way of making decisions behind the wheel, and 32 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 2: a computer does not have those emotions. And here we are, 33 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 2: they have it. They're on the road. You see them around. 34 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:10,680 Speaker 2: People are already doing it in Arizona. They're doing it 35 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 2: in Texas, and they want to do it in California, 36 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:15,920 Speaker 2: and they want to do it basically in all states. 37 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:18,359 Speaker 2: And they were on Capitol Hill talking to senators. 38 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 3: A car moving without a driver. It's not science fiction. 39 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,640 Speaker 3: It's happening now in major US cities as companies like 40 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 3: Tesla and Weimo deploy autonomous vehicles onto America's streets. Senators 41 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 3: from both parties demanded to know if self driving technology 42 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 3: is truly safe. 43 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:40,680 Speaker 2: So that's an interesting question. Can a senator question the 44 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 2: safety of a processor like that? I find that fascinating. 45 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 2: First off, let's go over a thing or two about 46 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 2: the United States Congress. These are older people. There are 47 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:58,080 Speaker 2: four hundred and thirty five members of the House of Representatives, 48 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 2: and there are one hundred UI senators, and the average 49 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 2: age of the United States Senate is way north of 50 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 2: sixty five. Some of these people are in their eighties. Certainly, 51 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:14,079 Speaker 2: when you realize that Senate, the Senate is based on seniority, 52 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 2: that means the Mitch McConnell's of the world, who he's 53 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:20,639 Speaker 2: having all kinds of health problems. I mean, when you 54 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 2: consider some of these people, Chuck Grassley, I mean, these 55 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:26,080 Speaker 2: guys are so old. I've been there. They don't have 56 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:31,519 Speaker 2: computers on their desk. They don't because they don't understand email. 57 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 2: I mean, so you have people who don't know how 58 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 2: to work email questioning Waimo about whether or not these, uh, 59 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 2: you know, these these computers inside these autonomous vehicles are safe. 60 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 3: Lawmaker's concerns come amid several high profile incidents across the country, 61 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 3: including a crash last month in California where a young 62 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 3: girl was struck by a weimo but not hurt. 63 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 4: Right. 64 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 2: I saw that. Now these are high profile, like as 65 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 2: soon as somebody is hurt via waimo, right, immediately they 66 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 2: jump on the story, oh too soon to have autonomous 67 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 2: vehicles because somebody was hurt. And then you find out 68 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 2: that the kid jumped out in front of the car 69 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 2: from like a high car, like a tall vehicle, Like 70 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:24,280 Speaker 2: if somebody was driving that car, the kid would have 71 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 2: got hit. 72 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 5: Two. 73 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:32,360 Speaker 2: So that isn't the fault of the autonomous driver the processor. 74 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 2: It tried to stop, it was too close. I mean 75 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 2: that this, this to me is a specious argument. I mean, 76 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:42,119 Speaker 2: there are car accidents all day, every day. 77 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 6: Right. 78 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 2: We struggle with law on when people who are aged 79 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 2: should no longer have a license. We allow people who 80 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 2: are in the country illegally and can't speak English or 81 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 2: read the signs to drive, and we arbitrarily chose sixteen 82 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 2: to allow my son to drive a car. And I 83 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 2: don't think I need to tell you that a sixteen 84 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:14,839 Speaker 2: year old today and a sixteen year old in nineteen 85 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 2: sixty five is a very different level of maturity and 86 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 2: attention span. Plus, now they have cell phones that they 87 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:25,919 Speaker 2: can't put down. So you have to tell a sixteen 88 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 2: year old to put his cell phone down in the 89 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 2: car while he's driving it and hope that he obeys. 90 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:32,840 Speaker 7: Right. 91 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 2: So, I mean, there's all kinds of arbitrary and capricious 92 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:39,720 Speaker 2: realities that we have to work our way through at 93 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:43,640 Speaker 2: all times as time moves forward, and as we move 94 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 2: forward as a society and technology takes hold. So this 95 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 2: idea that awaimou hit a girl that jumped out in 96 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 2: front of the car is a ridiculous reason to say, 97 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:55,800 Speaker 2: hold the presses, let's not move forward on the technology. 98 00:05:55,800 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 2: It's not safe yet. Like we were trying to and 99 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 2: men to the moon and the spaceships exploded, did we 100 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 2: stop setting men to the moon? All we're talking about 101 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 2: is a car ride. 102 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:12,159 Speaker 3: Weimo executives tell Fox the child ran in front of 103 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 3: the vehicle from behind a tall SUV. The company claims 104 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 3: the car performed better than if a human had been 105 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 3: behind the wheel. The FEDS they're investigating. The NTSB is 106 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 3: also probing Weimo after cameras captured the company's vehicles avoiding 107 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 3: stopping for school buses in Texas. 108 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 2: Oh boy, all right, So that's it. We can't have 109 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:33,159 Speaker 2: the driverless car because in Texas they didn't stop the 110 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 2: school buses. We have to program that all in. It 111 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 2: all takes time. You solve the problem in San Francisco 112 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 2: when the power went out, which is a third world 113 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 2: country reality, So you can't have third world country run 114 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 2: power systems in a first world nation where weimo is operating. 115 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 2: So before you blame weaimo, why was the power out 116 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 2: in San Francisco? The power went out, which means the 117 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 2: street lights blinked or were out completely. And Weaimo works 118 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 2: on the red lights and the green lights for now. Eventually, 119 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 2: what turns the light red or green will be able 120 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 2: to be red electronically through something like bluetooth to the weaimo, 121 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 2: so it won't matter like the Weaimo is not actually 122 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 2: won't be looking for a red light or a green light. 123 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 2: It will know before the light actually turns green or 124 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,640 Speaker 2: before the light from the green light reaches your eye. 125 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 2: That's how efficient it is, and that's the direction we're going. 126 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 2: But anyway, the waymos all stopped, which is a safety 127 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:46,480 Speaker 2: mechanism because they couldn't tell if the light was red 128 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 2: or green because the city of San Francisco in some 129 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 2: parts couldn't keep the power up, so the Waimo stopped 130 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 2: in the middle of traffic, which is better than any 131 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 2: other option, but they held up traffic, and people pointed 132 00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 2: to it as a reason that the technology is not 133 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 2: there yet. Look, this is gonna happen. It's too cool, 134 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 2: it's too convenient, this will be the thing. Think about 135 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 2: how great it is to not have to drive home 136 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 2: after having two Chardonnays. You can leave your car and 137 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 2: call an uber. I think that's great. There's no reason 138 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:23,080 Speaker 2: for anybody to be driving a car ineburated or even tipsy. 139 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 2: There's no reason for people to be driving a car. 140 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 2: If you're tired or just don't feel like driving, right, 141 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 2: you can call somebody and they come pick you up, 142 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:38,199 Speaker 2: and it's like nothing costs nothing compared to with Deui. 143 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 2: It costs nothing, that's for sure. Right. That is the 144 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 2: That is literally baby steps in the level of convenience 145 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 2: we're about to have in our quality of life, not 146 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 2: just our quality of life here in the United States 147 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 2: as a first world nation, but like, let technology be 148 00:08:55,960 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 2: our magic carpet. Embrace this and let's go. Let's get 149 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 2: in these cars and leave the car parked in the driveway, 150 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:10,320 Speaker 2: and eventually we will realize we don't need as many 151 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 2: cars in our driveway as we do, and it will 152 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 2: be great. Let's let technology like make our lives better 153 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:19,840 Speaker 2: and make it more fun. We can go wherever we 154 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 2: want at all times, every time, and we don't have 155 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 2: to bother an uberlau, an Uber driver. 156 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:30,559 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 157 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 2: Talking about in the Senate today Tesla and Waimo both 158 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:44,080 Speaker 2: making the case for driverless cars, and I agree with 159 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 2: the technology. 160 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:47,320 Speaker 5: Hey lou, why do you hate truck drivers? Why do 161 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:51,439 Speaker 5: you want driverless truck? That means millions and millions of drivers, 162 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:55,320 Speaker 5: a lot of them Union sir. It was their job. 163 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:58,199 Speaker 5: We're the ones who move America. We need truck drivers. 164 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 5: We don't need Gavin Newsom friends behind the wheel of 165 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 5: a truck and wiping out families. Why do they hate 166 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:05,840 Speaker 5: workers so much? 167 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 2: Jesus, Lord Christ, I appreciate the call. I don't hate you. 168 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 2: I don't hate workers. I advocate for truck drivers, and 169 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 2: I want you to be able to take like not two, 170 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 2: but sometimes three containers, and I want your fuel costs 171 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:25,680 Speaker 2: to go down, so it has nothing to do with you. 172 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 2: The trucks can drive themselves like that's that's not really 173 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:35,440 Speaker 2: a fair argument. Why have engines? Why not just keep 174 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 2: the rickshaw and we put the rickshaw people out of 175 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:43,480 Speaker 2: business when we designed the engine. That wasn't fair. Should 176 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 2: we have kept the engine under wraps so the rickshaw 177 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 2: people could move everybody around? This is a reality. I mean, 178 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 2: they were people that made shoes for horses too, And 179 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:02,199 Speaker 2: it's it's not going to happen overnight. I do believe 180 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 2: that the freight moving freight trucking is going to be 181 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:08,680 Speaker 2: the first area of change. 182 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 1: I do. 183 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:13,920 Speaker 2: I think because individuals will be resistant to giving up 184 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:17,480 Speaker 2: their cars. But look what happened to taxi drivers. You 185 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:20,360 Speaker 2: don't see them anymore. Why because Uber and lyft is 186 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:25,560 Speaker 2: more efficient and there's just more people available to turn 187 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:29,199 Speaker 2: on their Uber account and go pick you up. It 188 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 2: wasn't about putting taxi drivers out of work. It's just 189 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:39,000 Speaker 2: a technology. It's the technology is here. It's not even 190 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 2: a matter of its coming. It's here. We are resistant 191 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 2: to it. Now. There is going to be temporary problems. 192 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:47,959 Speaker 2: I understand what you're saying. A lot of people are 193 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 2: employed in the trucking business, and so there has to 194 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 2: be phasing that does not disproportionately harm that industry. I 195 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 2: don't think it should be turned upside down overnight, but 196 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:05,320 Speaker 2: it's going to happen. So let me put technology in 197 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:08,440 Speaker 2: a little bit of perspective, only because it was explained 198 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:10,960 Speaker 2: to me this way and it really hit home with me. 199 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 2: Scientists and futurists and people that study this say we're 200 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:20,040 Speaker 2: going to be four to seven times more technologically advanced 201 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:23,959 Speaker 2: in the next twenty five years. Four to seven times 202 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:29,080 Speaker 2: more technological advancement in the next twenty five years. That 203 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 2: means that twenty fifty is as far forward technologically speaking 204 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 2: as nineteen hundred was backwards. Now, go and explain to 205 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:50,960 Speaker 2: somebody in eighteen ninety eight what you did today, like 206 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:54,320 Speaker 2: the cast of Little House on the Prairie or like 207 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:58,720 Speaker 2: you know, Bonanza, I don't know, uh right, Go explain 208 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:01,560 Speaker 2: to somebody. And by the way, eighteen ninety eight, we 209 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:06,640 Speaker 2: were fairly advanced society. We had newspapers, Chicago was going, 210 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 2: we were moving into the industrial age. People were educated, 211 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:13,679 Speaker 2: we were moving to the big cities. We were building 212 00:13:13,679 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 2: bridges and dams. I mean, we were technologically, you know, 213 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:19,840 Speaker 2: up to speed, and we were as good as a 214 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:21,680 Speaker 2: god on planet Earth in eighteen ninety eight, so we 215 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:24,720 Speaker 2: weren't a bunch of dumb folk. But explain to somebody 216 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:27,400 Speaker 2: in eighteen ninety eight what you did this morning? You 217 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:31,319 Speaker 2: woke up with an alarm clock that wasn't invented yet, 218 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:35,480 Speaker 2: to go downstairs and have breakfast, and have a hot 219 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 2: breakfast with hot water that wasn't available in your house 220 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:44,439 Speaker 2: under an electric light bulb that wasn't invented. To microwave 221 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 2: a bowl of I don't know, oatmeal that wasn't invented, 222 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:53,760 Speaker 2: and have hot coffee without a flame from a currig 223 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:57,200 Speaker 2: coffee maker, and then put everything in the dishwasher that 224 00:13:57,280 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 2: wasn't invented. To get into your car that wasn't invented, 225 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 2: to drive to work on a freeway that didn't exist 226 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 2: while listening to KFI streaming live on the iHeartRadio app, 227 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:11,080 Speaker 2: listening to Bill Handle. Then you get to work and 228 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 2: you go and look at your computer and check your emails. 229 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:17,840 Speaker 2: How do you explain that to somebody in eighteen ninety eight, 230 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 2: Like the concepts are too humongous for even a thinking person, 231 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 2: A deep thinker of eighteen ninety eight to comprehend that's 232 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 2: what twenty fifty is going to be like. And that's 233 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 2: if it's four times that's if technology is four times 234 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:45,560 Speaker 2: more advanced, and some say it's between four and seven. 235 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 2: If you go seven times as advanced, then twenty fifty 236 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 2: as is as far forward technologically speaking as you have 237 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 2: to go back to Newton inventing calculus in the sixteen hundreds. 238 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 2: So try it explain that to Newton, although he was 239 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 2: pretty smart, but I don't think he would comprehend the iPhone. 240 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 2: So that's like, that's the way we have to think 241 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:15,200 Speaker 2: so as to brace ourselves for the technology that's gonna come. 242 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:19,160 Speaker 2: And when you think in those terms, then the self 243 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 2: driving car seems like an easy one and it is not. 244 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 2: My drivers is a day after Tune sixteen eighty three. Yeah, 245 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 2: and guess what, you won't have to drive anymore because 246 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:33,560 Speaker 2: the car will just come. 247 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 8: Representatives from companies that make self driving cars argue they 248 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:38,360 Speaker 8: can be safer than a human behind the wheel. 249 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 1: Human behavior is one of the leading causes of accidents. 250 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 7: This drivers may be inattentive, distracted, speeding, or impaired. 251 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:48,080 Speaker 8: Test the head of vehicle engineering Lars Moravi tells the 252 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 8: Senate Commerce Committee Congress must modernize regulations that inhibit the 253 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 8: industry's ability to innovate. Doctor Mauriziopina is Waimo's chief safety 254 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 8: officer for US. 255 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 2: Safety is not a competing priority. Is the foundation for 256 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:03,120 Speaker 2: every decision that we make at waymon. 257 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 8: Page says the company is currently providing more than four 258 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:07,640 Speaker 8: hundred thousand autonomous rides each week in Phoenix, the San 259 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 8: Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Austin, Atlanta, and Miami. 260 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going on all over the place, and it's 261 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:16,160 Speaker 2: going on in the LA too. But I expect California 262 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 2: to be a resistant place. So I think we'll get 263 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 2: everything last. But when we go and visit our friends 264 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:28,280 Speaker 2: in Arizona or were there for the weekend, it'll be amazing. 265 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 2: And like that's the way it's gonna be. And I 266 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 2: like that's the natural reaction. I understand that there are 267 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 2: groups in California that represent Uber drivers and Lyft drivers, 268 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 2: well just Uber and Lyft. You know they they're gonna 269 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 2: be hurt first, so they're gonna start saying, well, you 270 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 2: know what we'll do. We'll allow a law that requires 271 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 2: the Uber driver to sit in the passenger seat. But 272 00:16:57,680 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 2: there's got to be a guy there right that they 273 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:01,880 Speaker 2: do this thing in the grocery stores. You see the 274 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:07,360 Speaker 2: grocery store unions. They're requiring to have like one checker 275 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:12,520 Speaker 2: for every three scanners, just to stand there to protect 276 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:17,120 Speaker 2: their jobs. But technology is not a job security program. 277 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:22,240 Speaker 2: Technology is the way forward and you can either resist 278 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:26,680 Speaker 2: it or embrace it. But the resistors don't have good 279 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:28,120 Speaker 2: history on their side. 280 00:17:28,680 --> 00:17:32,120 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 281 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 2: We're arguing about technology. 282 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:37,560 Speaker 5: You know what I'm looking forward to is AI replacing you. 283 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 5: They're already doing it all over radio. Hope you save 284 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:43,679 Speaker 5: your money, buddy, because you are next with AI. 285 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 2: Bye bye. I appreciate the call. This is guaranteed. 286 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 1: Human people like you. 287 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:53,480 Speaker 4: Have no idea what it takes remove all the people 288 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:56,879 Speaker 4: from their highways and have robots do everything. And I 289 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 4: prefer a robot talking on the radio to go. You're 290 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:03,359 Speaker 4: token out of your behind. 291 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:04,440 Speaker 2: Wouldn't be the first time. 292 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:06,720 Speaker 9: The challenge now, you know, when you want to compare 293 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:08,760 Speaker 9: it to one hundred years ago, is that the economy 294 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 9: back then was exploding. 295 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 6: The opportunities were just mind boggling. 296 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:19,840 Speaker 9: In today's reality, the economy is almost contracting. So the 297 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:25,080 Speaker 9: obvious conundrum is the intersection of automation and employment and 298 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 9: what does that mean for society as a whole. 299 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:30,359 Speaker 6: So I think you've sort of dismissed that unintentionally. 300 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:35,280 Speaker 2: I appreciate the call, and I appreciate the modifier and 301 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:38,639 Speaker 2: the grace. I did not dismiss it, and I didn't 302 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 2: do it unintentionally. This is thought through. Of course, there 303 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 2: are ebbs and flows, and the economy is not contracting. 304 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:55,440 Speaker 2: Our efficiencies are expanding, right. Automation does not contract the economy, 305 00:18:55,440 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 2: it expands it. So I think you're confusing a couple 306 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:08,520 Speaker 2: of concepts here. If I, if I may, this allows 307 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:12,160 Speaker 2: for more efficiency. This gives you more time. You are 308 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:19,840 Speaker 2: more efficient than driving a car, especially when a processor 309 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:24,480 Speaker 2: can drive the car better than you, because even you, 310 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:27,359 Speaker 2: even if you're a great driver, over the course of 311 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:32,720 Speaker 2: your life, the time spent to drive a car, learn 312 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 2: how to drive a car, buy a car, earn money 313 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 2: to pay the insurance on the car, get into an accident, 314 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:43,959 Speaker 2: get the car repaired, get into an accident, recover and 315 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 2: get back to work. Get into an accident. You're fine. 316 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:49,680 Speaker 2: You hurt somebody else, Now you got to go to 317 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:53,800 Speaker 2: civil court. Right, all those things are eliminated. That frees 318 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:58,720 Speaker 2: you up and you are free to do other things. 319 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 2: Like That's the way you have to look at it. 320 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:05,080 Speaker 2: These efficiencies are to the good for you. I get it. 321 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:06,960 Speaker 2: I get what you're saying, Lou You're gonna put the 322 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 2: taxi cab drivers out of business. Well, the Uber and 323 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 2: Lyft guys did that. Well, now they're gonna put the 324 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:12,639 Speaker 2: Uber and Lyft guys out of business. What are they 325 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:15,159 Speaker 2: gonna do? They will do other more efficient things with 326 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:19,439 Speaker 2: their time. I get that the truck drivers are going 327 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:23,400 Speaker 2: to be in a world are hurt, but there's ways 328 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:25,840 Speaker 2: to factor that in, right, there's ways to phase this 329 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:31,640 Speaker 2: in in a way that does not destroy an entire 330 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:35,960 Speaker 2: life of a professional over the road driver. There's ways 331 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,200 Speaker 2: to do it, and there's no better time to start 332 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:44,639 Speaker 2: than now. So I don't think. I don't think of 333 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 2: it as the economy is contracting. The economy will only expand. 334 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 2: Now you want to get really heady about it and 335 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 2: get noodle head academic about it. Yes, I fully believe 336 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 2: that we are more efficient than our wages reflect. I 337 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:01,399 Speaker 2: think we are way. I think technology allows each and 338 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:03,280 Speaker 2: any every one of us, no matter what we do, 339 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:06,400 Speaker 2: I don't care what you do for a living. Technology 340 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:09,440 Speaker 2: allows you to be way more efficient and your pay 341 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:14,920 Speaker 2: is the same. Right before there were cell phones and 342 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:20,960 Speaker 2: Uber Eats, there were Starbucks. So the Starbucks person used 343 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 2: to have to make the coffee for the person that 344 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:28,040 Speaker 2: came into the Starbucks and said, I would like a 345 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 2: one pump sugar free vanilla latte. That's mine, right, And 346 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 2: so there's a line. You gotta make the one pump 347 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 2: sugar free vanilla lat for Lou. They would spell at 348 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:43,480 Speaker 2: l U, which is always fun for me. And that's 349 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 2: all the Starbucks barista how to do make the coffee 350 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,520 Speaker 2: for the guy in front of you at the at 351 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:52,120 Speaker 2: the counter. Then the advent of the cell phone. Now 352 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:54,879 Speaker 2: you now people are emailing the orders. Now they're going 353 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:57,359 Speaker 2: to make the coffee for everything that's coming in, plus 354 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 2: the people in the dining room. Nowber Eats comes. You 355 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,480 Speaker 2: got a whole little second. Now some guys coming who's 356 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 2: going to pick up a coffee and then go deliver it. 357 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 2: And the Starbucks guy's gonna make the coffee for the 358 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:12,600 Speaker 2: people online. The people that are sending orders in technologically, 359 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:18,640 Speaker 2: and the Uber eats guy and now there's a drive through. Right, 360 00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 2: did the Starbucks guy get four times the salary in 361 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:26,920 Speaker 2: that period of time? He's four times more efficient? 362 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:30,200 Speaker 7: Right. 363 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:34,680 Speaker 2: It's the same thing goes for you at work. Right 364 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:38,960 Speaker 2: back in the before there was email, there was mail, 365 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 2: and you got a salary and you got to work 366 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:45,920 Speaker 2: and either you or somebody opened the mail and you 367 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:48,159 Speaker 2: had to deal with the mail, and you responded to 368 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:53,359 Speaker 2: the mail. Now, guess what, you still get mail, but 369 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:57,320 Speaker 2: you also have to check your email, and people that 370 00:22:57,359 --> 00:23:00,119 Speaker 2: are familiar with you, they'll they'll text you, and all 371 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:04,360 Speaker 2: these inputs coming in and you are obligated to respond 372 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:08,399 Speaker 2: to all of it. And then your boss sends you 373 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:10,800 Speaker 2: a text over the weekend. Hey, real quick, sorry about 374 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 2: you on the weekend. Can you tell me what the 375 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 2: what the result was on the Penske file. That's a 376 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 2: little Seinfeld reference, right, but the boss, right, not a 377 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,680 Speaker 2: big deal. No one's gonna, you know, file an HR 378 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:26,920 Speaker 2: complaint over a quick email on the weekend, just real quick. 379 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 2: I know you'd know, so rather than wait till Monday, 380 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:30,520 Speaker 2: if you could just tell me, because I'm on the 381 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 2: golf course with Penske and that would be great, right, 382 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:39,359 Speaker 2: and you respond on your phone. That's very efficient, right, 383 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:45,439 Speaker 2: work gets done progress profit. Now you are in the 384 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 2: same office, you get actual mail, you get email, and 385 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:53,960 Speaker 2: you're on the phone on the weekends getting texts. You're 386 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:56,640 Speaker 2: doing three times more than three times the amount of work. 387 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:58,480 Speaker 2: There's no way you get as you got as many 388 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:01,719 Speaker 2: letters in nineteen eight eighty five as you get emails 389 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five, but you respond to them. All right, 390 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 2: are you getting paid three four five times as much 391 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:15,400 Speaker 2: as you were getting paid then no, So that has 392 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:18,720 Speaker 2: to be addressed. That has to be rectified. I think 393 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 2: Americans need to Everyone talks about minimum wage being eighteen 394 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,359 Speaker 2: dollars an hour, seventeen dollars an hour, We most of 395 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:29,719 Speaker 2: us are way more efficient than that, and our wages 396 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:35,800 Speaker 2: just don't reflect it. So as technology helps us to 397 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:41,240 Speaker 2: become more efficient, our worth is more. And that's what 398 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 2: we If you want to band together on something that Democrats, 399 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,159 Speaker 2: independence and Republicans can all agree upon for the people, 400 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 2: that is the one. That's the secret spot right there, 401 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:54,280 Speaker 2: that's the sweet spot. We are all way more efficient. 402 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:57,960 Speaker 2: We're we've not been compensated and we need to be. 403 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:01,640 Speaker 5: Right. 404 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:05,119 Speaker 2: I told this story before. In nineteen eighty, the average 405 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,920 Speaker 2: salary in southern California was twenty thousand dollars a year. 406 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 2: The average starter home was sixty thousand dollars a year, 407 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 2: three times as much, but making twenty grand a year, 408 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,520 Speaker 2: you could save a down payment on sixty thousand dollars. 409 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,080 Speaker 2: It's worked, but people did it. It was called saving 410 00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:26,720 Speaker 2: for a house. People talked in those terms, going on 411 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,880 Speaker 2: vacation this year. Now we're saving for a house. People save. 412 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:31,879 Speaker 2: Of course they did it. That's all these houses that 413 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:35,120 Speaker 2: we see in southern California were purchased by our parents 414 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 2: making twenty thousand dollars a year. Fast forward to twenty 415 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 2: twenty five, average salary in southern California sixty thousand dollars 416 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:45,879 Speaker 2: a year, a little more, but for the purposes of 417 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:50,200 Speaker 2: my math, average starter home eight hundred and ninety one 418 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:55,639 Speaker 2: thousand dollars. There's no way you can save it. And 419 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:59,600 Speaker 2: now they want twenty percent down and PMI there is 420 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 2: no way. Hey, anybody, I'll give you two incomes at 421 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 2: sixty thousand dollars a year, there's no way at one 422 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 2: hundred and twenty thousand dollars a year. You can save 423 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:13,399 Speaker 2: for a nine hundred thousand dollars house. And that's because 424 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:18,480 Speaker 2: our wages just haven't kept up with our efficiency. We're 425 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,440 Speaker 2: not getting paid enough, and that's the fight we need 426 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:25,639 Speaker 2: to have. Don't fight the technology, ask for more money. 427 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:30,280 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 428 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 2: So it's a big game on Sunday. Everybody's excited for it. 429 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:41,359 Speaker 2: And in Orange County they are particularly excited because the 430 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:47,040 Speaker 2: quarterback for the Seahawks went to high school in San Clementy. 431 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:49,320 Speaker 2: I know, we have a lot of listeners in Orange County. 432 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:53,359 Speaker 2: My wife went to high school at San Clementy and 433 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:57,640 Speaker 2: they're going crazy. In San Clementy, they have renamed San 434 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:04,600 Speaker 2: Clementy Sam clement That's Sam That's how excited they are 435 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:09,160 Speaker 2: about Sam Donald. And also that's San Clementy. You go 436 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:14,119 Speaker 2: a little north in Orange County to Newport Beach. Everybody 437 00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:18,080 Speaker 2: in Newport Beach went to USC. It's a requirement if 438 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,080 Speaker 2: you live in Newport Beach that you have to have 439 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 2: a degree from USC. And Sam Donald is the first 440 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:30,360 Speaker 2: quarterback from USC to be in a Super Bowl, so 441 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:32,760 Speaker 2: they are really making a big deal about it. And 442 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:34,399 Speaker 2: it's a lot of fun. We'll tell you all about 443 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:38,080 Speaker 2: it and share with you some of the stories from 444 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 2: the young people. They had a media event. I love 445 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,280 Speaker 2: when they do this. They have a lot of young kids, 446 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,280 Speaker 2: like really young, like eight, nine, ten year old, and 447 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,040 Speaker 2: they allow them at the media tent and to ask 448 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 2: questions of the players and it's just fun to listen to. 449 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,919 Speaker 2: So we'll do that. Following the news at nine o'clock. 450 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,440 Speaker 7: You say that the Uber drivers can do something else 451 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:05,280 Speaker 7: with their time. Like what there's never a second part 452 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:09,040 Speaker 7: to this explanation. What are they going to do? Okay, like, 453 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:10,040 Speaker 7: please explain. 454 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,600 Speaker 2: I appreciate the call, and I appreciate the frustration with 455 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:19,440 Speaker 2: what I'm talking about. So I beg you to think 456 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:24,960 Speaker 2: this way. What did you think before there was Zuber 457 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:28,760 Speaker 2: that you would do with your time that you cannot 458 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:33,199 Speaker 2: that you could not dream of this idea where a 459 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,919 Speaker 2: phone and an app on the phone would connect you 460 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:41,200 Speaker 2: to a company that allowed you to use your own car, 461 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:46,320 Speaker 2: that you ensure on your own time, any time of 462 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:51,200 Speaker 2: the day or night whenever you wanted to to connect 463 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 2: with the world of people that also had cell phones, 464 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 2: and it was delineated by location. So that you could 465 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:08,200 Speaker 2: only you could limit your availability to a ten mile radius, 466 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 2: twenty mile radius, thirty mile radius, and shut it off 467 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,640 Speaker 2: when you got tired. Right Like, that concept was lost 468 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,800 Speaker 2: upon you before there was Uber, before there was lyft. 469 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,400 Speaker 2: So saying what do you expect people to do when 470 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:27,400 Speaker 2: self driving cars replaced Uber and lipt drivers would be 471 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,560 Speaker 2: like me asking you what did you do before there 472 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:37,560 Speaker 2: was email? So there will be other technological advances that 473 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:41,320 Speaker 2: will that will astound you, and there will be other 474 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:46,560 Speaker 2: gig economies. But honestly, you didn't think that this was 475 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,760 Speaker 2: going to last forever, right, You didn't think that being 476 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 2: an uber and lip driver was going to be the 477 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:55,239 Speaker 2: way it goes forever. Like, that's just the future of 478 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 2: other people picking you up. This was a temporary and 479 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 2: magical solution. 480 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,640 Speaker 9: Purchasing power of an average employee today is a lot 481 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:07,720 Speaker 9: less than it was fifty years ago. So we have 482 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:09,840 Speaker 9: two things going on, and we have automation and we 483 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,720 Speaker 9: have concentration of wealth and so sure, maybe the economy 484 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,920 Speaker 9: isn't expanding for a select few, but of what benefit 485 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:18,240 Speaker 9: is that? 486 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 6: So again, I think all these things are related. 487 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 2: Well, I think there's great benefits. I'm not sure that's accurate. 488 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,680 Speaker 2: I don't know that purchasing power in real dollars is 489 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 2: way less than it is today. There are more options 490 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:33,640 Speaker 2: today and we consume a lot more, but the reality 491 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:38,520 Speaker 2: remains as difficult as this is to hear that the 492 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,440 Speaker 2: four dollars. First off, it's not four dollars a gallon 493 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,280 Speaker 2: because it's a dollar eighteen in taxes to Gavin Newsom, 494 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:47,080 Speaker 2: So effectively, the three and a half dollars a gallon 495 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,480 Speaker 2: of gasoline that you're putting in your car right now 496 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:53,320 Speaker 2: is cheaper than what your grandfather put in his Etzel 497 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:59,120 Speaker 2: dollar for dollar, adjusted for inflation. So technology is working 498 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:03,760 Speaker 2: for us, and look, you're just talking about transportation. LG 499 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:09,640 Speaker 2: has finished the robot. The robot's done. Literally, the robot 500 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:12,160 Speaker 2: servant in your house is ready to go. 501 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:15,160 Speaker 10: LG has revealed a new home robot called LG Kloyd. 502 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,560 Speaker 10: It can help with cooking, laundry, and can also control 503 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,680 Speaker 10: smart appliances by working with LG's thank you system. 504 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 2: How about that? So the robot, I mean, if you 505 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 2: have an LG oven, the robot doesn't have to turn 506 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:29,360 Speaker 2: on the oven. It just thinks the oven on, and 507 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:33,480 Speaker 2: the oven goes on and you know, you don't have 508 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,840 Speaker 2: to have the degal deedle deedle alarm when the washing 509 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:38,440 Speaker 2: machine needs to be flipped and you have to put 510 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 2: the stuff into the dryer, because it'll be an LG 511 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:43,560 Speaker 2: washer and dryer and it will talk to your LG 512 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:47,360 Speaker 2: robot and the LG robot will go and do it, 513 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:50,080 Speaker 2: and you won't have to hear the dinga ling a 514 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:55,280 Speaker 2: ling from your LG dishwasher. The robot will know and 515 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,360 Speaker 2: will automatically go to the dishwasher and empty the dishwasher. 516 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:03,680 Speaker 2: This technology is here. It really is astounding, It really 517 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:08,200 Speaker 2: is incredible, and it like this isn't science fiction any longer, 518 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:12,920 Speaker 2: and it's not futuristic, like they are not testing these things. 519 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:23,280 Speaker 2: They have robot dealers at blockjack tables, they have robot bartenders, 520 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:26,840 Speaker 2: and now they got I mean remember Rosie from the Jetsons. 521 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:30,320 Speaker 2: She now works for LG. 522 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,480 Speaker 10: LG has revealed a new home robot called l G Kloyd. 523 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:35,880 Speaker 10: It can help with cooking, laundry and can also control 524 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 10: smart appliances by working with LG's think you system. 525 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:39,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. 526 00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:42,160 Speaker 10: The robot has two arms and moves on wheels in 527 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,760 Speaker 10: its head, works like a mobile AI control center. It 528 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:48,280 Speaker 10: can see, understand its surroundings, and perform real actions inside 529 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:48,640 Speaker 10: the home. 530 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:52,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, so it really can't see. That's incorrect. But what 531 00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:54,480 Speaker 2: it can do is exactly what your phone does, and 532 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:58,320 Speaker 2: that is recognized things digitally. Like you'll have to take 533 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,440 Speaker 2: the robot around when you first buy it. You have 534 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:03,959 Speaker 2: to give it a tour of the house and it 535 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,920 Speaker 2: will just like when you first got your iPhone and 536 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,160 Speaker 2: you set up facial recognition, you had to stand there 537 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:12,320 Speaker 2: for a couple of seconds and look at it and 538 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,160 Speaker 2: it finally got you. Or when you put your thumb 539 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:16,320 Speaker 2: on it, you had to put your thumb on it 540 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:18,240 Speaker 2: for a couple of seconds and it finally got your thumbprint. 541 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:20,320 Speaker 2: Same thing with the robot. You need to give it 542 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,680 Speaker 2: a few laps around the kitchen until it knows where 543 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,040 Speaker 2: you know where what the difference is between the refrigerator 544 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,880 Speaker 2: or the oven. They want to confuse those two. But 545 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:33,960 Speaker 2: it's here and we're all gonna have one, and it's 546 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,360 Speaker 2: gonna be great. We won't have to cook or do 547 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,240 Speaker 2: the laundry, or fold the laundry, or empty the dishwasher 548 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:42,800 Speaker 2: or anything else that LG makes lou Penrose on KFI 549 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,680 Speaker 2: AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app 550 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,920 Speaker 1: KFI AM sixty on demand