Expert 02: Brad Templeton

Newsletter Audiocast

In our second episode of the Expert series, RedBlue speaks with Brad Templeton, Chairman Emeritus of the EFF, the leading foundation protecting liberties and privacy in cyberspace. Brad was the founder and software architect of ClariNet Communications Corp., the world's first ever ".com" company. In the nineties, Brad became fascinated by self-driving cars, and went on to write a series of industry-leading essays, publish a robo-car blog, and consults for Google's AV team.

We get asked all the time a set of questions about autonomous vehicles: When will they be here? Will people still drive when we have autonomous ridehailing? Will there be more or less cars in a world of robotaxis? Will autonomous trucking come before autonomous taxis? And of course: what about that trolley problem? Brad is probably the person in the world who has thought most about these questions and answers them very directly and clearly in this episode of the Expert Series podcast.

Besides answering most of the big questions around autonomous vehicles, Brad explains why roads made of concrete are similar to the structure of the internet and we run through a scorecard of where various autonomous vehicle programs currently stand.

For more, please visit our homepage or newsletter.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit redbluecapital.substack.com