Mar 11, 2019
Craig is on with Jack Heath talking about the recent autonomous plane crashes. They also talked about autonomous cars and the NSA Surveillance Program.
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Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.
Airing date: 03/11/2019
Autonomous Planes 737 Crash - NSA Surveillance Program
Craig Peterson 0:00
Good morning, everybody. It's another Monday an early Monday, I
wish they would get rid of Daylight Savings Time, there has been a
move in the northeast US to not only abolish Daylight Savings Time
here, which again, there's all kinds of studies that show that it's
bad for your health, this whole Daylight Savings Time shifting an
hour here and there. Not a good thing. But turning that off, but
also changing to a new time zone, creating one more time zone east
of Eastern Time, which would put us in maritime time, which I am so
for as well. And Maine and New Hampshire have alternately pass
bills. But all the New England states are kind of relying on each
other, because Maine won't it if Mass. doesn't do it or if New
Hampshire doesn't do it, and you know, vice versa, typical
political mess. And the only reason we have the time zones we have
is because of the railroad and they decided to chop the country up
to make their life a little bit easier to schedule the trains over
100 years ago. And then Congress fell in step and decided to adopt
these time zones. It used to be that noon was it varied from city
to city, and it was based on when your actual noon was based on the
sun being directly overhead. So we had thousands of time zones
across the country just too much for the railroad, too much for the
federal government to handle. So that's where we got it from
completely arbitrary. I would love for it to make way more sense.
And if you look at even productivity numbers, the people's
productivity based on where they live within a time zone, if
they're on the eastern edge of the western edge, or in this
sentence, and health impacts. It's huge. We've got to re examine
this and we've got to get rid of the shifts in the time zone.
That's just my opinion here. But heck, that's what you're here for.
Right. We are going to go now to Mr. Jack Heath. Of course, talking
with me, Craig Peterson about a couple of things. One, this new 737
crash that occurred in Ethiopia, what is happening with our jets?
What are the technical concerns from my viewpoint on this, we also
had a couple of minutes to talk about autonomous vehicles tying
that into the airplanes and some credit the President Trump just
does not getting over this National Security Agency data collection
program. So here we go with Mr. Jack.
Jack Heath 2:52
Craig Peterso, our Tech Talk guy joins us on the Auto Fair listener
lines. Good morning, Craig.
Craig 2:57
Hey, good morning, Jack. You know, look, this Boeing 737 Max 8
crash. It's kind of interesting in getting into the background of
it, because these two crashes or they're looking into whether or
not it was some faulty sensor data. Both of these planes crashed
shortly after takeoff. And it brings up something that I've been
concerned about for many years. And it really was me started with
the Airbus planes where we have a heavy, heavy reliance on
automation and was automation at least partly to blame because of
bad sensors? So it looks like that's what the crash investigators
are starting to look into right now. But that goes right back to us
or automobiles. We've got these new self driving cars. We've got
Elon Musk, saying that within the next year is Teslas are going to
be upgradeable to be completely self driving and that brings up
questions about the insurance market, insurance people. Who are
they going to ensure?Is it the guys that wrote the software? The
company they work for? The contractor that hired them? The
companies that made the car which isn't really making the car
anymore they're being assembled? We've got police now who are
looking at maybe being able to take control of self driving cars.
We have at least two cases now jack where drivers have fallen
asleep behind those steering wheel with Tesla including one just a
month ago with the autopilot engaged. There's so many
questions eh?
Jack 4:33
I don't want a, did you just say eh? Did you hear the Canadian in
Craig Peterson right there. He said, eh. Wow, eh? I was just saying
I don't want Justin McIsaac having a driverless car.
Craig 4:49
Well, the way I look at it, Jack, in 20 years, you know, if you're
70, 80 years old, it's probably going to be safer to have an
autonomous vehicle than having you drive the today it might be
safer to have the autonomous vehicle than having Justin drive the
car as you pointed out. But ultimately, ultimately, this is where
it's going. And this is where the airplanes are going.
Jack 5:13
It's not me I'm worried about when I'm driving.
Craig 5:15
Yeah, Justin, I know. I get it.
Jack 5:17
No, no it's the other car though.
Craig 5:19
It's Justin. Yeah.
Jack 5:20
He's no, he's a very, he's a very conscious driver. It's what he's
what he does. But it's not his car that worries me.
Justin McIsaac 5:26
I can use the Apple and driving sometimes. Believe me, I
can't wait for this.
Craig 5:32
It's going to be an interesting but a very rough road for the next
few years. And the President Trump's administration is not getting
much credit for the next thing here, which is, you know, this whole
controversial NSA National Security Agency program that was
scooping up data on all kinds of Americans, you know, domestic
phone records and all Well, what's interesting to me on this is, of
course, it was a whistleblower that let us know what the federal
government was doing and monitoring us tracking us, etc. President
Trump came into office, all of a sudden the NSA decided to destroy
years worth of data. It had been collected on Americans because
they admitted that some of it was illegal. Well, now that program
is up for renewal. And they are concerned that President Trump is
not going to renew it, because apparently that's what he's been
saying. So we got word from a congressional aide. Now the National
Security Agency has stopped their surveillance program, the
monitoring all of us Americans, and also apparently this program
has not yielded the arrest of even a single person. Although it's
probably cost us more than a billion dollars plus our privacy. So
interesting, interesting day this morning, Jack
Jack 7:00
All right, Craig. Thanks. Good stuff, eh? I appreciate it. Craig
Peterson with an O-N. Thank you, Craig.
Craig 7:05
Take care.
Craig 7:06
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t talk about. It's kind of tough if you're hosting a three four
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