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AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Supported
Mintz: California spent $20B on homelessness as homeless population rose 20%
“The state has spent twenty billion dollars on homeless services in the last five years. Twenty billion dollars. The number of homeless people in the state's gone up 20% in that time.”
Nathan Mintz Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 4:16 Ep 55: Nathan Mintz on Directed Energy, a New Space Age & the Final Hurdles to a Driverless Future · Joe Lonsdale
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Supported
Mintz: Passenger car OEM design cycles range from two to ten years
“The passenger car design cycle, depending on if you're talking about a Chinese OEM an American OEM, European or Japanese can go from two to 10 years even”
Nathan Mintz Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 20:11 Ep 55: Nathan Mintz on Directed Energy, a New Space Age & the Final Hurdles to a Driverless Future · Joe Lonsdale
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Supported
Mintz: US lacks 80,000 truck drivers with median age nearing 50
“We have 80,000 we're 80,000 truck drivers short. The median age of truck drivers in this country is approaching 50 years old.”
Nathan Mintz Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 26:20 Ep 55: Nathan Mintz on Directed Energy, a New Space Age & the Final Hurdles to a Driverless Future · Joe Lonsdale
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Contradicted
Mintz: 8,000 People Die in Truck-Related Accidents Annually
“I mean, we have 8000 people that die in truck related accidents every year, and it's just, it's unnecessary, and it's wasteful.”
Nathan Mintz Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 28:46 Ep 55: Nathan Mintz on Directed Energy, a New Space Age & the Final Hurdles to a Driverless Future · Joe Lonsdale
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Partly supported
Mintz: 60 to 70 million automotive radars ship annually
“There's probably something like 60 or seventy million radars that go out the door every year. I would say probably 60% of the cars on the road have one at least in the Ford.”
Nathan Mintz Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 15:55 Ep 55: Nathan Mintz on Directed Energy, a New Space Age & the Final Hurdles to a Driverless Future · Joe Lonsdale
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