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5:17Mark GardinerGUEST
Well, in Tesla's case, the self-driving car and the cyber cab, well, the big difference is no steering wheel.
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5:24Mark GardinerGUEST
So they're designed to not be at all driven by human beings, whereas self-driving car, but not fully self-driving is obviously, and that's where we are at the regulatory stage, is it's still supervised by human.
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5:42Mark GardinerGUEST
And I've driven nearly all of the electric cars on the market these days for... you know, for various work trips, et cetera, and it does watch that your eyes are on the road and things like that so you can't just drop off.
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5:56Mark GardinerGUEST
But I must say on long-haul trips, and I do quite a lot of those sort of five- or six-hour-plus trips up and down the north coast of New South Wales, you know, those micro moments where you're not paying attention or you've got kids in the back and things – It's been a very, very handy addition to assist you.
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6:15Mark GardinerGUEST
And then the fully self-driving, which, like I said, with the CyberCab, you hail with a phone app and, you know, you just get in and it takes you where you need to go, essentially, and you're not really involved in supervising the car at all.
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11:30Peter GrecoHOST
But maybe in a sense for a person to say with vision, if they're kind of sitting in the car that's driving and there's no one around and no steering wheel, it probably is a bit like, hang on, what's going on here?