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Speaker 1: Ron and Anian. Where are we going? What are we doing?

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Speaker 1: The warwork, driving theater for the cruise for critters and

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Speaker 1: it should be a lot of fart. We're gonna put

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Speaker 1: you on this point. Um, I hope everybody's were in

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Speaker 1: dark sunglasses. The Car Doctor. The first car comes in

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Speaker 1: that you're working on that has no fuel pressure and

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Speaker 1: you get the driving in on prope and you'll be like, oh,

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Speaker 1: thank god. Welcome to the radio home of Ron and

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Speaker 1: Anian the Car Doctor. Since this is where car owners

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Speaker 1: the world over turned to for their definitive opinion on

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Speaker 1: automotive repair. If your mechanics giving you a busy signal,

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Speaker 1: pick up the phone and call in the garage doors

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Speaker 1: are open, but I am here to take your calls

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Speaker 1: at eight five five five six and now he running. Hey,

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Speaker 1: it's time to start your engines. Along Walker Monini and

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Speaker 1: the Car Doctor here at the helm today. Eight five

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Speaker 1: five five zero zero. The phone number, the Car Doctor

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Speaker 1: five zero nine zero. We are live in studio today.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately Tom changed his mind and didn't take me out

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Speaker 1: on my date we're not at the drive in. I'm

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Speaker 1: real disappointed because I was hoping to go see you know,

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Speaker 1: closed for the season and see you next summer. Well,

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Speaker 1: now you're gonna see see you not there um new movie?

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Speaker 1: What happened? Well, well, little little behind, a little dirty,

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Speaker 1: behind the scenes secret is we tend to live on

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Speaker 1: the internet and that's how we get our show over

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Speaker 1: to the satellite uplinks so all our stations can carry it.

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Speaker 1: And when I showed up this morning, there was no internet. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And we tested it last week and it worked like

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Speaker 1: a champ. So but the phone company had a most

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Speaker 1: A had an issue, but it was too close to

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Speaker 1: the calls, so we came back to the studio. So

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Speaker 1: technology kind of brings us back to square One's sort

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Speaker 1: of like it makes you wonder when when all the

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Speaker 1: cars are dependent upon the internet, and I think about this,

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Speaker 1: gonna be? And we can't that we can't. You can't

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Speaker 1: depend on technology. If you could, we wouldn't be in

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Speaker 1: studio today. Well, which is why you know, we had

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Speaker 1: other end of the pipe. It just doesn't work. That

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Speaker 1: talk to you about your car. Before we do that,

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Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit about my car

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Speaker 1: and the things that can go wrong when you least expect.

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Speaker 1: And that's that's the stuff you've got to be aware of.

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Speaker 1: So the subourban broke this week, and uh, it was

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Speaker 1: a you know, unexpected I guess it's never really expected.

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Speaker 1: Sixty thousand, two hundred and fifty three miles on it

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Speaker 1: It's a little bits past fifteen years old. And it

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Speaker 1: driving down one of the roads here. We were heading

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Speaker 1: and driving town and you hear, you know, and I

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Speaker 1: Hey Ley, welcome to the car doctor. How can I help. Well, Hello,

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Speaker 1: you today? Well, I called you what about a month

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Speaker 1: you know? The car was pulling as if it would

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Speaker 1: The engine isn't running smooth. Correct, it is not running smooth.

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Speaker 1: you have experienced to day? Well? No, I from what

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Speaker 1: So he may not have the skills to be honest

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Speaker 1: ask you, Now, there's different kinds of scanning um tools.

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Speaker 1: You're you ever been okay on Monday but you didn't

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Speaker 1: I feel worse than Wednesday. I'm sick, all right. Computer

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Speaker 1: that it's stored is in a section of the computer

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Speaker 1: programming called mode six. And in the hands of the

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Speaker 1: and look at Mode six data. It's it's it's the

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Speaker 1: test for misfire can't exceed number two or ten thousand,

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Speaker 1: Mode six test data for misfire, uh is they say

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Speaker 1: four as soon as it hits five hundred folds, right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Were the car doctor? Um? Tom? You ever hear of

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Speaker 1: And doing some investigation on the internet, said that's not

427
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:04,240
Speaker 1: good to have different kind of tires on. Does it

428
00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:08,600
Speaker 1: injure other things in your engine or your drive train

429
00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:11,800
Speaker 1: or anything? That's fun question. What kind of cars U

430
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:17,520
Speaker 1: two thousand five Chrysler Town and Country Van just front

431
00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:22,200
Speaker 1: wheel drive? I believe so yeah, Um, it's not as

432
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:25,199
Speaker 1: critical as it would be if it were an all

433
00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:28,840
Speaker 1: wheel drive or some very specific Jeep and Subaru product.

434
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:33,200
Speaker 1: You know, it really comes down to more than just mileage.

435
00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:36,960
Speaker 1: What is the tread depth? I've I've I've had cars

436
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,600
Speaker 1: that have miles on a set of tires and their

437
00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:44,200
Speaker 1: bald to the tread, and I've had cars with fifty

438
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:47,200
Speaker 1: miles on them and it's got two thirds of the

439
00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:50,720
Speaker 1: way to go. So you know, not so much you know,

440
00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:52,920
Speaker 1: actual mileage. I mean, I like that. I really like

441
00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,440
Speaker 1: the way you're thinking. And that's very clear and precise.

442
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,960
Speaker 1: But it would be let's measure the tread depth and

443
00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:02,280
Speaker 1: you know, let's see is this one seven thirty seconds

444
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:05,400
Speaker 1: and that one six thirty seconds In terms of depth,

445
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,160
Speaker 1: that's not a problem. If there's greater than a two

446
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:12,439
Speaker 1: thirty second tread that between the tires, then on certain

447
00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 1: cars that can become an issue. Now more important, or

448
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:20,440
Speaker 1: just as important, are the three or four tires that

449
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:22,240
Speaker 1: are on here. Are we all the same brand and

450
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:26,520
Speaker 1: model number? Or are we starting to mix and match everything? Um,

451
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:31,720
Speaker 1: you know different? Mhm. Well, the three that we're on,

452
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:35,639
Speaker 1: the one that they replaced with the first blowout that

453
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 1: I believe was a tire of the same brand, the

454
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:43,640
Speaker 1: same kind and everything. Now, now when we were going

455
00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:45,760
Speaker 1: he says, well, we can get you a new tire,

456
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:49,680
Speaker 1: but they don't make that tire anymore, so we'll get

457
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:52,760
Speaker 1: one that will be close to it. And then I question,

458
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:54,960
Speaker 1: what do you think? Oh, that will be all right,

459
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:59,679
Speaker 1: But I guess that just didn't feel right to me. Um.

460
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:02,159
Speaker 1: So then he he says, well, we can put on

461
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:05,040
Speaker 1: two new tires and that way you'll have two and two,

462
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:08,960
Speaker 1: or he said we can replace all four. And I

463
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,639
Speaker 1: think he said the depth and the tires. Two of

464
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 1: them were at seven and one was at ten. Does

465
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:19,159
Speaker 1: that make sense? Yes? The the ten thirty second was

466
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:22,200
Speaker 1: the newer tire there's more tread met there and the

467
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 1: seven thirty second were the older two tires? Right? And

468
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,639
Speaker 1: now those actually that he said, well, actually these are

469
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:33,920
Speaker 1: very good. And other people did too, but I don't know.

470
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 1: I mean, after my accident and stuff like this, I

471
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:40,520
Speaker 1: don't fool around with my car. I keep it up

472
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:44,560
Speaker 1: to date. So my my deal was do I buy

473
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,399
Speaker 1: one tire, do I buy two tires? Or do I

474
00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 1: replace all? For? What would be your opinion? Um? The

475
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:53,840
Speaker 1: first question I would ask is, and and don't take

476
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:59,280
Speaker 1: this wrong, but would four tires break the bank? What

477
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,640
Speaker 1: does it come there to your to your life? Well? Right,

478
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 1: that's you know if, if, if you can afford the

479
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:12,119
Speaker 1: four times, because there's two things going on here, Lila, alright.

480
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 1: One is one is you know, keeping the car in

481
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 1: top shape. Two is actually three things overspending, but three

482
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 1: and most important your peace of mind. All right, it

483
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,360
Speaker 1: sounds like you know you're you're you're a senior you're

484
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:28,399
Speaker 1: a senior woman. You're on the road all hours of

485
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:30,359
Speaker 1: the day and night. Maybe maybe you're out after eight

486
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:32,920
Speaker 1: nine o'clock at night. Sometime you want to cut down

487
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 1: and minimize the potential problem with the tire as best

488
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 1: you can. And if it's if it's because you at

489
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 1: least have to do two tires here, all right, you've

490
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 1: at least got to do too. So having at least

491
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:50,120
Speaker 1: to do too, you know what, treat yourself. Life's too short.

492
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:52,160
Speaker 1: By the other two tires, you'll have peace of mind.

493
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 1: And then it's in the hands of the big guy upstairs.

494
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:56,919
Speaker 1: You did everything you could reasonably do to keep your

495
00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 1: yourself safe on the road with good tires, and you know,

496
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 1: after that, it's it's up to the universe. Um uh.

497
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 1: And then at least you've got four tires, same model,

498
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,959
Speaker 1: same brand, same tread depth, and you know, you want

499
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:11,680
Speaker 1: to throw the other two tires in the garage, or

500
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: maybe you go back to your regular mechanic and he'll

501
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 1: store two tires for you in the event that you

502
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 1: get another flat, or you know, I I can't imagine

503
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,879
Speaker 1: more luck continuing like this. Sooner or later, it's got

504
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 1: a change. If it does, buy a lottery ticket for me,

505
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,200
Speaker 1: I'll split it with you, and uh, you know, we'll we'll,

506
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 1: we'll we'll kind of take it from there. But yeah,

507
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 1: that's that's how I would play it. I would I'm

508
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:34,480
Speaker 1: like you, I like four of the same and you

509
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 1: know it's it's just one, okay, two I with two

510
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:43,399
Speaker 1: of this, you know, Um, yeah, I I kind of

511
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 1: get to that. And then obviously we want to you know,

512
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:47,160
Speaker 1: make sure we're using a good quality of good brand

513
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 1: to tire um, you know, and being very cautious about

514
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:53,399
Speaker 1: the off shore tires, the Chinese tires that are being

515
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 1: imported into the country, um, you know, and not and

516
00:27:56,840 --> 00:28:01,240
Speaker 1: not purchasing anything there. So I'm okay, I'm glad to

517
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 1: hear that because that's what I did. And I know

518
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:07,200
Speaker 1: I'll get some flak from some of my relatives because

519
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:09,160
Speaker 1: they I know, they'll say you could have just put

520
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 1: two or one. But is un a Royal a good tire.

521
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 1: Uniroyal has been around forever. Um there they have limited distribution.

522
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:18,719
Speaker 1: You know. It's funny. I don't see un Royal as

523
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: much here in the Northeast, but I see them. I

524
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: see more of them in the midwest end in California

525
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 1: on the west coast. So yeah, it's a it's a

526
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:28,359
Speaker 1: good tire. We used to use her. We used to

527
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 1: use Reuni Royal quite a bit back in the in

528
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 1: the in the late eighties, in the in the mid nineties. Um,

529
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:36,400
Speaker 1: and then you know, it was like sporadic in my career.

530
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 1: I remember putting you in a Royal Uni Royal Tiger pause, right,

531
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 1: there's a there's a model to everybody's gonna go. Well,

532
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 1: I remember tiger pause, Um, you know, and then they

533
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 1: kind of disappeared and then they came back again. But yeah,

534
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 1: you're fine. Uni Royal is a guitar that and I

535
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 1: did before because I just thought I was gonna do two,

536
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 1: and I went home and I thought, no, I'm as

537
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 1: you say, I'm gonna always wonder when is that other

538
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 1: one gonna go? And then then there I sit again

539
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 1: in the same predicament, and thank you, and you tell

540
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 1: your relatives mind your own business. It's my money, go away,

541
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 1: all right, thank you, all right, you're really welcome to sweetheart.

542
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 1: You do too. You have a good rest of the weekend.

543
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 1: Eight five five zero nine nine zero zero. I can't

544
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 1: stand noisy, noisy, nosy relatives, Tom, I really can't these relatives.

545
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 1: I think they know best in life. Get out five

546
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,960
Speaker 1: five zero nine zero. The car Doctor is coming back

547
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 1: right after Welcome back an the car Doctor. UM Interesting

548
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:53,719
Speaker 1: articles Chicago Tribune out of titled ride by David McGrath. Um.

549
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 1: This goes back early August courtesy of offener officer Anthony

550
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: from Chicago. Up story about a the writer rights he

551
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 1: talks about. I purchased a Cadillac CT six equipped with Supercruise,

552
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 1: which is a semi autonomous driving system and um he

553
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 1: took a twelve trip from Florida Chicago and the He

554
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 1: documented it for his columns a newspaper columnist uh Day

555
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 1: one Port Charlotte, Florida, Forsyth, Georgia for forty seven miles.

556
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 1: Cadillac super Cruise system uses GPS sensors, map data, and

557
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 1: laser sensors that work like great art of steer control

558
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 1: speed and maintain lane position. I activated at seventy eight

559
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 1: miles an hour under state seventy and then pushed the

560
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 1: sc button eight inch long light bar inside the top

561
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 1: of the steering wheel at I level immediately turned green.

562
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 1: That signals the driver may let go. Since lane lines

563
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 1: were visible and the route recognized as a segment of

564
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 1: the three thousand hundred and thirty thousand miles precision mapped

565
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 1: by Cadillac, I mean this sounds like something out of

566
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 1: out of Star Trek right uh. For the next two hours,

567
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 1: I enjoyed a passenger's ease, enjoying the scenery and physically

568
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 1: feeling the decision making of the system's artificial intelligence, which

569
00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:00,240
Speaker 1: seemed an invisible human presence. A tiny infrared came around

570
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 1: the steering column watched my eyes even through sunglasses that

571
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 1: I looked away too long or started to not all

572
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 1: if it would alert me in a series of escalating warnings,

573
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 1: starting with blinking lines of vibrating seat and ultimately charmed.

574
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 1: So it sort of sounds like that when the system

575
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: is activated, send me autonomous super cruise in late model

576
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 1: catallac cts. When the system is activated. Are you a

577
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 1: prisoner to the system that you have to you know

578
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 1: what if you want to take a nap, and I

579
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 1: guess you can't, So it's sent my autonomous I guess

580
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 1: that's the that's the whole purpose. But um, you know

581
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 1: at seventy eight miles an hour, At seventy eight miles

582
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: an hour on an interstate, things happen in the blink

583
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 1: of an eye. That's eighty miles an hour. Did he

584
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 1: say that right? Yeah? I activated at seventy eight miles

585
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 1: an hour. By the way, isn't that speeding? Um? What's

586
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: the speed limit on inter State seventy five? We should

587
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 1: have looked that up. But I still that doesn't sound right.

588
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 1: That's almost well. It says here he's going from Port Charlotte,

589
00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: Florida to forsythe Georgia and the speed on he said

590
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: that he was going. I'll check that it's very very well,

591
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: could be down there. Yeah, um, but still I don't

592
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 1: know that I like that. But he talks about how

593
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: you know he had a positive experience. Um um. On

594
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 1: previous chips, always around dinner time, I was tired and stiff,

595
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 1: but today I felt fresh, with none of the usual

596
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 1: eye strainer, back ache. I checked into my hotel in Georgia.

597
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 1: Of course I'd like to find out what other kind

598
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 1: of car it was driving the last time he took

599
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: that trip. You know, if it was a hun day

600
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 1: and now he's driving a Cadillac, there's a reason why

601
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 1: he feels better. Day two, Forsyth, Georgia to Kentucky. In

602
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 1: a traffic jam north of Atlanta. The super Cruise handled

603
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: the steering, stopping, and speed control throughout a fifteen minutes

604
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 1: zero to twenty mile crawl. No hands, no feet, no

605
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 1: rising blood pressure, and I would look down for several

606
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 1: seconds to find lip bombs, switch radio stations, and scribbled

607
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 1: in my notebook. My co pilot kept the Cadillac on track.

608
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 1: This was true later in a rain squall that blurred

609
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: the lanes and prompted other drivers to pull over or

610
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 1: flash the blinker, super Cruise kept on. But in bad weather.

611
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 1: And you know, are we really at a stage where

612
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: I need to drive the car like a pilot flying

613
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 1: a plane on instruments? Is it is it that important

614
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 1: that we're gonna push the envelope to count on the

615
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 1: system to see through the rain, and and and and

616
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:18,360
Speaker 1: and bed weather conditions. I don't I don't buy that.

617
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 1: I because one mistake, one glitch, one unexpected piece of

618
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 1: weather in the road, a tree falling, something I've got.

619
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 1: You know, maybe it's ego. You know, maybe a lot

620
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 1: of this self driving stuff is ego that you know,

621
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 1: as humans we can control it better than the machine.

622
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 1: But um, you know, you just it's it's got to

623
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 1: be a very different kind of feeling. You had a

624
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: quick comment, Tom, I don't know coming over here. Uh. Yeah,

625
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 1: after we had to abort the remote broadcast, I was

626
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: driving over here to the studio and uh, a guy

627
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 1: came out, didn't look my way, look the other way,

628
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 1: and just pulled right out into the lane. Um, if

629
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: it could stop in that in in that instance, I'd say, hey,

630
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 1: let's go for it. You know, I saw him and

631
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: I the brakes. Now would it stop? Would it anticipate

632
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 1: you know, your brain anticipates what he's about to do

633
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 1: when you react to it. Would the system anticipate that?

634
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,760
Speaker 1: And would it apply the break or would it jerk

635
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: the wheel to the left to avoid the guy? See,

636
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 1: that's what I want to know, Canada, it jerks the

637
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 1: wheel to the left, Is it aware of the car

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Speaker 1: over there, right, And that's what I haven't seen yet.

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Speaker 1: And that's why i'm you know again. We lost internet

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Speaker 1: at the Warwick Drive, and which is why we're in

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Speaker 1: studio today. Technology fails at its simplest levels. This is

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Speaker 1: not simple. And speaking of your previous question, UH, in Florida,

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Speaker 1: the UH speed limit is seventy so is it miles

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Speaker 1: hour over the woman? I understand that at all. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're advertising it. Um. Anyway, let's pull over and take

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Speaker 1: a pause, Rod and anding of the car doctor. We'll

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Speaker 1: be back right after this. Welcome back, were any car

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Speaker 1: doctor and the infamous Always they're steady as a rock,

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Speaker 1: offen imitating, never duplicated, nobologning on a phony. Thomas Ray,

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Speaker 1: I've been trying to find Tony. He's not answering. Um.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you I think he's I'm thinking he's stuck

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Speaker 1: under a food truck. He must have he must have

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Speaker 1: burritoed out or something. He must have over burrito. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know what he is. He's probably practicing for tomorrow

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Speaker 1: when he when the Giants take the field and the

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Speaker 1: season starts, and um, he's expanding his mind, his knowledge

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Speaker 1: and his stomach. So he can enjoy the football game

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Speaker 1: in proper true fashion. Would not surprise me, I would

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Speaker 1: not surprise me. So but anyway we are we Uh

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Speaker 1: what quick hour? Um? Where'd they go? But that story

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Speaker 1: about super Cruise, the story about Tony And for the

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Speaker 1: folks up in Warwick, we're sorry, but technology is technology

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Speaker 1: and we apologize once again for that. Um. But in

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Speaker 1: any event, um, just as a reminder, I've enjoyed this

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Speaker 1: hour together with each and every one of you, and

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Speaker 1: I am on an any in the car doctor reminding

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Speaker 1: you the mechanics aren't expensive, They're priceless. See you. She

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Speaker 1: goes to Super Bo