Everyone talks about safety as it relates to driving, but what does “safe” actually mean? Our perception of safety doesn’t always align with reality. My mom complains about my driving even at a crawl, but she’s absolutely fine sitting in the back while a random cab dr...

Is there any word more overhyped than hacking? I’ve been hearing apocalyptic hacking predictions ever since the “Wargames” movie came out in 1983. That’s the one where the character played by Mathew Broderick accidentally backdoors into WOPR, the U.S. military’s mainframe and almost tri...

A lot of people think traffic is like bad weather: a storm we can avoid if we leave at a different time. But traffic isn’t a force of nature. You are never in traffic, you are the traffic. Traffic is us. Which means we can do something about it, if we let the free market decide how to price our...

So many “experts” have incorrectly predicted so much for so long that my eyes glaze over whenever I hear warnings about “hacking” or dates for nationwide robotaxi deployments. True experts don’t tell us what to think as much as how to interpret what we know, which is why some people ada...

If you build it, they will come has been a popular refrain among entrepreneurs ever since the hero in Universal Pictures’ 1989 film, “Field of Dreams” built a baseball diamond in the middle of an Iowa cornfield. But in the real world of business, customers only show up at the intersection o...

I love “The Matrix” and the first two “Terminator” films as much as any science fiction fan, but I’ve always wondered why there are so few great movies about good robots. T2 doesn’t count, because the T101 is only there to fight the T1000. The “Star Wars” movies don’t cou...

Everyone loves listening to music in cars, and ever since self-driving cars moved from fantasy to reality, there’s been speculation about how that musical experience might get even better. Some have suggested turning autonomous vehicle interiors into living rooms or movie t...

As a driving enthusiast, people often ask me why I support the idea of autonomous vehicles. I’d like to say it’s because I hate traffic and parking is expensive, but both of those pale before the obvious one, which is safety. Even if traffic weren’t a factor and parking was ubiquitous and f...

Many public schools lack basic computer science classes, which means a lot of talented kids never get a chance to pick up the tools they need—and America’s tech sector suffers. My co-host, Bryan Salesky, went to one of those schools and had to teach himself technology the hard way. Luc...