Parr: High-speed manual driving will seem archaic in twenty years
Sam Parr · How I Built Whoop Into A $3.6 BILLION Company (#411) · Jan 26, 2023 · at 46:45
Sam Parr discusses with Whoop founder Will Ahmed and co-host Sean Puri what current societal norms will seem shockingly archaic to future generations.
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“And it does seem, in about 20 years, it's gonna be so archaic. We're like, can you believe that we are basically one sneeze away from, like, an 80 miles an hour, like, car crash all the time? Like, you're just literally 10 feet away, five feet away sometimes. It, that is, that's gonna be our generation's smoking section in restaurant. That, that, that cars, two cars going, that's really, it's gonna be like smoking or not smoking. Like, you used to drive these cars going in opposite directions, and you were 10 feet away from each other. That's what it's gonna be like, I think.”
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