The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Between the Scenes - Driverless Car Accidents: Who's to Blame?

Episode Date: March 24, 2018

Trevor wonders why people tend to blame self-driving cars for their on-the-road mishaps instead of the humans responsible for making them function smoothly. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to Comedy Central. Hey everybody, John Stewart here. I am here to tell you about my new podcast. The Weekly Show is going to be coming out every Thursday. So exciting. You'll be saying to yourself, TGID. Thank God it's Thursday we're going to be talking about. All the things that hopefully obsess you in the same way that they obsess me. The election. Economics. Earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're going to be talking about

ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches. And I know that I listed that fourth, but in importance, it's probably second. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out on Thursday? I mean, talk about innovative. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. Do you see the, uh, the story of thethe story of the driverless Uber car that killed a person? Like a horrible story.

And what was weird about it though is how quickly people have come out blaming the car. No genuinely people have been like, you see this is why we can't have driverless cars. They're going to kill us on the road. It's like, okay, this is why we can't have driverless cars, they're going to kill us on the road. I was like, okay, there's a few things. First of all, people get killed by human drivers every day. Right, let's start with that. And funny enough, that is how people think.

Like, we'd rather be killed by one of. I want to be killed by Dave. It's interesting how people see it because people jump to blame the car. And I understand that. The car may be at fault. But here's my thing. The people are trying to teach the cars, right? So we've acknowledged that the cars don't know how to drive by themselves. They're trying to the car, just like a driving instructor who's supposed to press the break if the car doesn't press the break. So I want to know, how did the car not stop and then the person in the car not stop as well?

What was that person doing? Because in my head, I'm like, I suspect that, I suspect that, tasty, delicious, and I was like, boom, and it's like, ah! That's what it was. But you can't now be like, the cars are the problems. We said the cars can't drive. So for me, the blame lies on the person who was supposed to be stopping the car from hitting the person that stepped into the road.

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We're going to be talking about all the things that hopefully obsess you in the same way that they obsess me. The election. Economics. Earnings calls. What are they talking about on these earnings calls? We're going to be talking about ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches. And I know that I listed that fourth, but in importance it's probably second. I know you have a lot of options as far as podcasts go, but how many of them come out on Thursday. I mean, talk about innovative. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast.