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23Oct/18Off

My Dead Wife, the Robot Car is a Black Mirror-equse podcast about autonomous cars

jbareham_181019_2982_0011.0In the beginning of Stitcher’s new podcast, My Dead Wife, the Robot Car, a widower named Matt signs up with a mysterious tech company to work as a test driver for a new autonomous car. After a confusing introduction — the company rep won’t divulge any details about the company or even tell him his name — he’s set up in one a car, when he receives a rude surprise: the car’s AI is programmed to replicate his recently-deceased wife Joyce, whom he was about to divorce.

“Yeah, you big idiot, what part of this are you not getting?”

See the full story here: https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/21/18000576/my-dead-wife-the-robot-car-stitcher-matt-besser-podcast-autonomous-vehicles

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