June 26, 2025 • 26 mins
Dave Kunz, ABC7 Car Specialist. More and more people are buying pick-up trucks. // The 2025 NBA Draft recap + Southwest Airlines dealing with exploding soda cans as the company implements changes as heat causes soda cans to explode on flight. // Richie flying internationally to Spain and Summer Travel Season to Set Records // Tesla's first robotaxis hit the road
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps. They found the
nut that shot was shooting at Waimo Cars in Santa
Monica and then shot a cop and so he's been
taken off the street. So Santa Monica is a little
safer tonight than it was about an hour ago. So
(00:21):
you can rest tonight, enjoy yourself. And looks like the
cops have everything under control. Southwest Airlines has something exploding
on board.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
And it's not your laptops.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
It's not your you know, your iPads or iPhones or
chargers or any of that crap. It's something that you
never suspect would be exploding on planes. And we've all
handled one while on an airplane. The air Oh boy,
oh wow, ooh wee. All right, we'll come back and
tell a little about that story. But first, Dave Koons
(00:58):
is with us from ABC News. Dave Coon's the car guy.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
How you Bob Well, I'm just fining Tim ding Dong
and a minute with you.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Hey, I want to have you on real quick because
I heard something on the news that I thought was
a misprint and I thought maybe somebody who's lying to me.
But the hottest selling cars, SUVs or trucks right now
are pickup trucks.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Well it's been that way for a while. You know.
Ford likes to say that the F series, which includes
the F one, fifty and then the other F series
trucks above that, uh, the best selling vehicle in America.
And they sell anywhere between, depending on the year, a
half a million to eight hundred thousand a year, and
in some years they've hit a million. If you think
about all the commercial trucks and then people who use
(01:43):
them for pleasure, that's a lot of trucks. And that's
just one, you know, that's just that's just Ford. So
now you add you know, Chevrolet, gmc, RAM, Toyota, Nissa,
there's a lot of trucks out there.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Did you see.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I know you're you're a car nuts, you probably saw this.
But there was a there's a big ship off the
moast of Alaska. They caught on fire about a week
and a half ago. It had three thousand brand new
cars on it and then today it's sank and so
it's it's over. But they think that maybe the fire
on the ship was caused by some of the batteries
(02:15):
in these electric cars.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
And if you remember that happened a couple of years ago,
maybe it was three years ago out in the Atlantic, Yes,
and it was a vehicle filled with European built vehicles.
And they don't know whether the electric vehicles caused the fire,
but they do know that it's a lot tougher if
those batteries start the burning, maybe something else caught fire
and that it spread. It's really tough to put those out.
(02:39):
You know, firefighters, local firefighters are trained now and how
to do that. But on board ship systems they really
had to think about updating them to be able to
handle these fires. So when I heard this story about
the ship in the Pacific, thought, wait, didn't that already
happen though that was the another ocean with another ship.
But yeah, they're going to be changing a lot of
the maritime ways that they that they ship cars, especially
with more and more even a hybrid has a large
(03:01):
battery on board. So they've really got to reach to
do this.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
But let me ask you something, Dave, why can't they
ship the cars over separate from the batteries.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Well, that makes a really complicated process because remember the
battery is the entire floor of the vehicle if it's
a pure electric vehicle. So now you've got to ship
two different things. You can't drive the vehicle on and
off the ship. They could. They call them a row row.
It's roll on, roll off, and you'll see these crews
with a ramp and they drive the cars right on
and off the ship. Boy to do that, and they
(03:30):
have to reassemble the cars and they get back to
the other port. That would be a real real challenge.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
What's the number one selling pickup truck right now?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Is it Ford?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
It's the Sport F series. But you know we've talked
about this before. Ford's got a real hit on his
hands at the other end of the side scale with
the Maverick, and I know you look at and that
is a true compact pickup. You remember the seventies and eighties,
compact trucks were the thing. You know. There was a
Chevy Love, the Ford Courier, of course, Toyota, Nissan when
(04:00):
it was called Dotson, and those trucks grew and became
mid size, and Ford came out with the Maverick, which
is essentially the same chassis as the Broncos Sport and
the Ford Escape, and you know, they were able to
sell it for well under thirty thousand dollars, and I
know people who bought them absolutely love them. They have
different trim levels. Now they've got an off road version
(04:21):
called Tremor. I recently drove the kind of street truck
version called the Lobo that sort of lowered and has
some nice wheels on it. And this week I'm driving
Hyundai has a small one called the Santa Cruz. Wow,
they have an off road version of that. And now
Toyota and Nissan supposedly are really looking at getting back
into that smaller, less expensive truck market. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I like the small pickups. You don't need a big one.
I missed the old you know, the old Buck and Bronco.
I enjoyed that. Remember the Ford Courier, the Courier career
favor I think it was, And it was Courier.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Was made by the Curriers, made by mazdav but sold
as a Ford. And then Chevrolet had the love Uv
and that was made by a Suzu but sold by
Chevrolet dealers.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I heard that they're bringing back the Ranger. Is that
is it back?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Oh? The Ranger has been back for a while. In fact,
they're now in a new generation of Ranger. But that's
a mid size. That's still a pretty good sized truck, right,
and I think, and it's a great truck. I mean
they've done. And what Ford did. They had discontinued the
Ranger at around two thousand and eight or two thousand
and nine, and they thought, well, we don't need a
smaller truck, you know, or a few hundred bucks more.
You could just get an F one fifty. And then
when GM redesigned its mid sized trucks, which is now
(05:30):
in another generation, the Chevy Colorado and the GMC Canyon,
sales went crazy. They had to add a shift at
the factory to keep up with demand. And that had
Ford thinking, oh, maybe we shouldn't have killed off our
mid sized truck. And then they brought in one that
had been for sale in other markets. That was the
previous generation Ranger. Now they have an all new one
and that's a fantastic truck too. If you don't need
(05:51):
something huge, you know, you're not tolling a double axle
travel trailer. If you just need a truck to do
truck things, the mid sizes will usually get the job.
You don't need something that big, something like that Maverick
or that Hyundai Sana Cruz. They'll probably get the job
done too. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I enjoyed the pickup trucks.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I remember at one point they made a convertible pickup
truck that sort of never took off.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Well, they had they had a few of them. There
was a Dodge had one on the Dakota, right. And
then they remember that slick one that Chevrolet did about
twenty years ago. It was called the SSR. They kind
of had a hot rod plug. Yeah, it had a
power folding top and it had a bed that was
like fancy inside. The problem is it was, you know,
it was forty five thousand dollars and the guy they
were targeting, the guys they were targeting remembered pickup trucks
(06:36):
when they were two thousand dollars, and that didn't quite
go well. I mean, they're collector's items now. But yeah,
they made convertibles like they made convertible SUVs. Nissans prided
land Rover did it for a while.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I remember a buddy of mine in the nineteen nineties
had one and he called it the sky Ranger. It's
one of those you know, convertible Ranger ones and it
looked horrible.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Well, that was probably an aftermarket conversion, it was, And
the problem with those and companies have done that for years.
You know, you could buy a trade of sell like
a convertible before.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
But most of the guys that were doing the buildouts.
I think it was the American Sunroof company that was
doing all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
There's also a place down in Orange County and the
name is subpy Me. They've done everything. They've even recently
done a convertible Tesla and I heard her counter ring
they did a convertible Prius some years ago. The problem
with those conversions is they never looked quite as good
with the top up with the topno, well they can
they got that like Conna Stoga wagon look. And then
(07:33):
you have to hope the company stays in business if
you need a new top in fifteen or twenty years
or weather stripping.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Hey, do you think do you think delivered again? Who's
with us? Dave Koons?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Do you think deliver bring back the Mercury station wagon
with the wood panel?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Well Ford Ford got rid of Mercury a long time ago. Interestingly,
there have been concept vehicles of some of the SUVs,
you know, these wild vehicles that they sort of tease
us with, right, and on some of them they've put
the wood. It's called dynoc it's artificial woods siding. They've
put those some vehicles and people go, hey, I remember
those this. I don't know if anyone's going to be
(08:08):
so brave to do it, but they do them as
concept vehicles to kind of tease them. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I also think that if they do bring back the
Mercury Wagon, there's going to be a raised eyebrow of
putting the kids in a jump seat over a thirty
gallon gas tank.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Well, also the Bard and General Motors and well it
used to be Chrisher. They don't make sedans anymore to
make a station wagon out of. They just are out
of that business completely.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Buddy, I appreciate you coming on. You're on ABC. What
do you do once a week, twice a week, three
times a week.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Depends on how Sometimes it's three, sometimes it's one, depends
on what they need. And we've been preempt at a
lot lately. We had the NBA Final Run or stuff
like that. And you can find all my stuff at ABC,
sven dot com, slash automotive.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Excellent, buddy, thanks for coming on man, anytime to appreciate it.
All right, there he goes, Dave koons and he told me,
he said, at the end of my seg and he goes,
I always take a shot of whiskey. And you hear
it there at the end he took a shot of
whiskey there at the Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah, that's really is that true?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, he does that whenever he calls us up. He
sent me a text he goes at the end that
you can hear me take he was hear me clank
the bottle with the with the shot less and then
down it.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Like in celebration of job well done.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Or I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I think he thinks that I'm also drinking and he
doesn't wanted me to drink alone. You mean you're not
yeah yet, but I will be tonight. I imagine, all.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Right, real live when we come back.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
The thing that's exploding on airplanes are soda cans, and
we'll come back. I'll tell you what's going on with that.
Soda cans exploding on airplanes. Now we got one more
thing to worry about.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demand from KF
I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
The very first pick in the NBA draft is, by
the way, I call that losers city. If you've been,
if you follow the draft every year and you're not
a sportscaster, that means your team sucks and you're with
all the other losers in that auditorium looking to make
your team better.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
And.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
You hope that you follow a team that doesn't really
rely on the draft to get you better, that has
an up you know, management, and has a front office
that is wheeling and dealing and making great deals all
year long, all season long, all decade long. We don't
have to rely on the luck of the draft to
(10:29):
make you better. So the first selection is in who
was the first selection? Belliot, you used to play for
the Lakers or work for them or something with them.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I believe it's the Spurs, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I think it's Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I thought it was Dallas, but now it's saying seventy
six that the seventy six ers pick is in third pick. Yeah,
I thought it was Dallas, but I'm not a big
guy NBA guy.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Yeah, you're right, Dallas Mavericks had the first pick, and
who they pick as a kid from from Baylor or
the or Duke.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I don't know much about the NBA. I got to
rely on you, Bellio. Who they pick?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
It wasn't it? Hold on, it's.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Coming in flying in Cooper flag Cooper flag number one
from Duke.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
You would think it would say that, and it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Hold on, hold on, wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
We're going to let me put some boom in it. Yes, Duke, dude,
the Duke, Yeah, just in Duke.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
There goes to duke man.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
All right, well there he goes is going to a
Dallas and eating their food and getting their money.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Airlines, Southwest Airlines exploding soda cans exploding on the plane.
Yet another thing we all have to concern ourselves with.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
The Airlines know how to deal with high heat, how
to keep their people cool, so they limit how long
they're outside because you're not only getting the heat from
the sun, you're getting it radiating.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Off the ground.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
But these bursting cans came as a bit of a surprise.
Southwest now has a multimillion dollar solution.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Oh wait, a multi million dollars solution to forty cans blowing.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
Up for Southwest Airlines ground crews every flight is about
beating the clock, but as the temperature in Phoenix summer,
it also becomes about beating the unrelenting heat. You dread
those July August, those really hot days. I have to
be honest, I dreaded a bit. Yeah, for sure. John
Rawlings has worked the ramp for the last six summers.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Stay high. That's a tough job working the ramp in Phoenix.
Went's one hundred and thirty out.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
Stay hydrated, Stay out of the sun.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, low level advice, by the way, if you don't
mind me observing again, low level advice, stay out of
the sun and drink water.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
What would some high level advice ben't?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I don't think there is any.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I think you just have to say every man for himself.
And if you don't know to drink water and stay
out of the sun, then maybe you shouldn't be working
on the runways in Arizona in July.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
But if that is their job, what a is some workarounds.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
They you know them or you don't.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
By now, you can't tell an adult who's thirty five
how to stay how to beat the heat.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
You either know or you don't.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Sometimes we need to be real.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no no.
If you if you don't know how to beat the heat,
then stay out of it. Stay out of the kitchen.
Yeah everyone, F everyone, if everybody, including you and hurt
angels snickering, fothu F Brooker. F I don't know why Brooker,
but just F everyone, and you too, Steph, Foosh and Richie,
(13:38):
F all of you, F everyone and Kik especially Keiki
f off geek God.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
Southwest deploys roving hydration stations and aims to get ground
crews out of the heat after every flight. They work
even in the morning when it's a relatively cool ninety
five here in Phoenix. The temperature coming.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Off a cool ninety five in Phoenix.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
If we cool ninety five five here in Phoenix, the
temperature coming off the pavement is closer to one hundred
and twenty.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Well.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
During the last two summers, the Phoenix area experienced weeks
at a time above one hundred and ten degrees.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Can you know what they do at one hundred and
twenty They shut the airport down. Why do they do
that because the planes sink into the tarmac they're too heavy,
and they sink into the black top.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
Heat so hot it caused carbonated drink cans waiting to
be loaded onto flights to ripple and even burst, resulting
in some injuries to.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Crewminal five to ten.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
You started hearing the cans before you even saw them.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You could hear them deforming.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
In an effort to address the bursting cans ahead of
this summer.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
How about taking them out of the sun. Any of
you geniuses thought of that.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
Southwest bought sixty new refrigerated provisioning trucks for Phoenix. In
Las Vegas. They're two hottest hubs.
Speaker 8 (14:49):
Our summers are extending, and that product is under that
intense heat for longer periods of time.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
Steve Land oversees Southwest Provisioning Team at Phoenix Sky Harbor
Airport as they stock about two hundred flights.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Okay, what does he do? What's his job again?
Speaker 7 (15:01):
Steve Land overseas Southwest Provisioning Team at.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Phoenix Provisioning Team, provisioning team. The guy that drops off
food is now on the provisioning team. God almighty man.
Everybody has a new title that means nothing. It's all nothing.
He's on the Provisioning Team.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
West Provisioning Team on Hey, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I'm on the side Southwest, Oh you fly you pilot,
co pilot?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
No provisioning team? How out of here is it? Like Rations?
Like the Rations team? Everybody's so crazy with titles.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
We have a lot going on as always in Los Angeles,
home of the real aggressive lunatics. There's a guy who
was shooting at Waimo cars allegedly and also allegedly at
a cop. He shot one of the newer cops. I
think he's a rookie cop out of Santa Monica, and
they caught that dude. So he'll be cool in his
heels in local lock up. Then he'll probably go on trial,
(16:07):
and if he's convicted, he's probably looking at thirty to
forty years in prison for them. Really dumb move, just
really dumb, But a lot of dumb people out there.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
So what can you do?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Record travel this summer.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I know we seem it seems like sort of radio
hackish things to do, but people travel. I know Richie
is with us. He was just in Europe. Hey Richie,
can we get Richie on the Hey Guys Show? Hey,
how are you Bob? Now you just recently went to Europe, right, yes,
(16:43):
and you got to tell the story on what happened.
How many of you people were in your party for total.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Including myself.
Speaker 9 (16:49):
We booked the flight together, We selected our seats together.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I mean, we were prepared. Right, We are on our
way to.
Speaker 9 (16:57):
Lax from the valley, and then we all get red
emails literally maybe halfway to Lax, and then this email
pretty much stated that our flight has been canceled.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
And what do I just start a vacation? Really like
for real?
Speaker 9 (17:12):
But yeah, so the whole gang got emails stating that
our flight has been canceled and just to go see
your receptionists at the airport. We get there, they put
us all on four different flights. Wow, I got the
better end of the stick. I went like from Lax
to JFK within like two hours. My good friend Zoe
and Jesse a couple. Did they have to split up? No,
(17:36):
they luckily were able to stay together. But they got
the bad side pretty much. They had a fly from
Lax to San Francisco right within five hours, and then
a ten hour delay from San Francisco all the way
to Barcelolona. So could you imagine like losing a whole
day and so. But when they left San Francisco, they
(17:57):
flew right to Spain.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Correct.
Speaker 9 (17:58):
Okay, yeah, so we were When I say we, it's
myself and my friend Ian. I was fortunate enough to
get him on my flight so that way I didn't
have to go solo. So they were able to do
that for us. But you want to know what they
gave us. They didn't upgrade us. They didn't do anything
other than give us a twenty.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Five dollars no voucher. Yeah, what can I buy it
for twenty five dollars at the airport? Nothing?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Not even a charge cord bro What what airline was it?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Iberia?
Speaker 9 (18:24):
Okay, so noted if you're going to Barcelona.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Don't all right?
Speaker 9 (18:30):
But you had a good time, huh Yeah, dude, it
was so much fun, Like everything was just fun, like,
you know, first of all, just being out of you know,
California right now.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Sure it was magical. But the people were great, the
food was Were the planes crowded, yeah, it was all
a full plane. Well, the hotels crowded.
Speaker 9 (18:48):
Well, I don't know because I I well, I'm not
a good planner. But my friend Zoe, she planned the
whole trip. We were not staying like in the hotel
area because I heard that there was like a protest
going on. I guess the community out in Barcelona was
like spray watering or what was it like a water
gun or something? Oh yeah, right, a tourist. Yeah, they
were like shooting people up with water, right, But no,
(19:10):
we stayed in a nice little area. We I don't
know what she did, but she basically got in contact
with like an apartment company and we were able to
stay there kind of like an Airbnb WITHBMB.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Yeah, but it was good.
Speaker 9 (19:21):
It was like right on downtown, so excellent. It's gonna
be crowded this year, Thank you, Rachie.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Crowded traveling this year, Gang, be aware that you're not
the only person on that plane.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
As summer temperatures heat up, so does America's love for
summer travel. When you got here and you saw the crowds,
what did you think We're.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Not gonna make our plight?
Speaker 8 (19:47):
TSA, announcing it set a new all time single day record,
A screening nearly three point one million passengers at airports
nationwide Sunday, capping the first official weekend of summer. I
saw a lot of crowds and the lines, and I said,
oh my god, they leaving it and I'm coming in.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Thank you Jesus.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
The agency now bracing for a staggering holiday surge. It
expects roughly eighteen point five million passengers to fly around
the fourth of July. The busiest day Sunday the sixth.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Oh, no, Sunday, the sixth, Every the day that everyone's
flying one factor.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Industry analysts say the fourth lands on a Friday, making
for an easy three day weekend.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Four percent more flights take off over the long weekend,
so thousands more seats added for Americans who are looking
to get away.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Oh good, the vast majority a lot more seats added
for that weekend.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
That's great. Are we got to take a break.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
All right, lot's going on. They found the nut in
Santa Monica. They're shooting at the cops and shooting at
Waimos allegedly. I guess I'm both and shooting at Waymos.
I don't understand. I don't understand it. I don't understand
lighting them on fire. I don't understand shooting at him.
(21:07):
I mean, where are you in life? There's nobody in there,
or you know, if there's passengers, but there's nobody driving
that thing.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
It's really strange. It's strange behavior.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Because of the cameras on them, that they shoot at them.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Yeah, why would you shoot at some of the cameras on.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
Because Richie This was Richie's theory, because they think like
they're watching them, they're being exposed. I think it's maybe
like you know, people that don't like the technology they're
angry with. I think it's just really dumb people. Is
that possible?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, a lot of dopes this in the city,
a lot of really dumb people.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Yes, some things don't have an explanation to it.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Yeah that's right.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah, you can't figure it out, right, just can't figure it.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Out all right.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Robo taxis another form of these you know, way mows
and driverless cars test. First robotaxis are hitting the road.
Speaker 10 (22:04):
Tesla's first robotaxis are officially on the road.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Vers Tesla Robotaxi ride.
Speaker 10 (22:08):
Elon Musk's company launching its long awaited self driving taxi
service in Austin, Texas, offering rides to a select group.
The cost a flat rate of four dollars and twenty
cents parride.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
That's a good deal. I wonder if that's a coincidence
for twenty cost a.
Speaker 10 (22:23):
Flat rate of four dollars and twenty cents parride.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
There's no driver, there's no like ghost person up there.
Speaker 10 (22:28):
While they're technically driverless, each car still has a safety monitor,
a Tesla employee riding in the passenger seat. For now,
the service is limited to a handful of cars in
a small area of the city, but Musk has big ambitions,
not just for robotaxis, but for every Tesla.
Speaker 11 (22:43):
By the end of next year, we'll have hundreds of thousands,
if not to over a million Teslas doing self driving
in the US.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
A million Teslas that means a million cars added to
the road and a million jobs that are going away.
Speaker 10 (23:00):
Tesla calling this a precursor to the cyber Cat, which
the company says we'll go into production next year.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
You'll be able to take a riot in Stephu's you're
an Uber driver and you also drive for Lyft?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Is that true for both?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Still? That is correct?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
What's the word on the street with your fellow drivers
that they worried about these autonomous cars.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
We'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
People are scared to take them, you know because the
way that the drive and they don't always follow traffic regulations.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
But I mean, yeah, I mean it could be the future. Yeah,
it sounds like it is, but more horrible.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
You like to sit there and talk to the guy
drive in or the gal you know sometimes.
Speaker 11 (23:38):
Yeah, you'll be able to take a riote in those say.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
Earlier in this spot that an employee of the company
is riding shotgun, Yes for now, Yeah, how would you
like that job?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I just sit there do nothing.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I mean you literally just sit there and you're like
the tag along Mertz on that one. But it's but
it's really I don't understand why he's there, because if
you're going to get an accident, he can't react quick
enough to pull the car over or do anything. Yeah,
it's odd. I think it's just for you know, to
make people feel safer. But he he's not making it safer.
(24:15):
He just makes people feel like it's safer. I guess
I don't know, but yeah, that's an odd job.
Speaker 11 (24:19):
You'll be able to take a ride in the cybercab.
There's no steering wheel, or pedals.
Speaker 10 (24:24):
Driving development of the self driving software artificial intelligence trained
by consuming data from millions of teslas on the road.
Speaker 11 (24:31):
It's like living millions of lives simultaneously and seeing very
unusual situations that a person in their entire lifetime would
not see.
Speaker 10 (24:40):
Musk says the cyber cab and other teslas could one
day be rented out by their owners to make extra money. Wow,
Tesla taking a first step into a space where other
companies are already well ahead. Waimo currently handles two hundred
and fifty thousand paid rides a week across multiple cities,
and at least three other companies are now testing autonomous vehicles.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
You know what's going to happen in future.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Instead of buying a car, You're going to buy a
way mo or a robo taxi, and that's gonna be
your car, and then you'll decide whether that car is
going to be used on during downtime to make money.
But every I think in the future, I think our
great grandchildren will never know how to drive.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I think in thirty or forty years driving will be
over and new drivers will not have to have a
license because they won't be driving they'll be riding and
every car will be driverless.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
That's the future. That's what's going on.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
And I know you probably don't like it, but it's
where you know, you know, never you know, there's a
lot of people don't like progress at all on anything.
And if that was the case, we'd still have rotary phones.
We'd still have the Z channel or on TV or
you know, a corded phone where you have to go
to the kitchen talk to somebody. And people were afraid
(26:03):
of that progress and we all got used to it.
So we'll get used to this and we have to
because society moves on. They keep moving forward and you
have to adjust. You can't be the old guy sitting
in his house yelling at people to get off your lawn.
That's not the way to go. AI is here, robod
taxis are here, Waymo's here, and they're here to say
(26:25):
for good. So you got it used to it and
if you don't, life's going to pass you by. We're
live on KFI AM six forty Conway show on demand
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(26:46):
Radio app.
It's KFI Am sixty and you're listening to the Conway
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps. They found the
nut that shot was shooting at Waimo Cars in Santa
Monica and then shot a cop and so he's been
taken off the street. So Santa Monica is a little
safer tonight than it was about an hour ago. So
(00:21):
you can rest tonight, enjoy yourself. And looks like the
cops have everything under control. Southwest Airlines has something exploding
on board.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
And it's not your laptops.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
It's not your you know, your iPads or iPhones or
chargers or any of that crap. It's something that you
never suspect would be exploding on planes. And we've all
handled one while on an airplane. The air Oh boy,
oh wow, ooh wee. All right, we'll come back and
tell a little about that story. But first, Dave Koons
(00:58):
is with us from ABC News. Dave Coon's the car guy.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
How you Bob Well, I'm just fining Tim ding Dong
and a minute with you.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Hey, I want to have you on real quick because
I heard something on the news that I thought was
a misprint and I thought maybe somebody who's lying to me.
But the hottest selling cars, SUVs or trucks right now
are pickup trucks.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Well it's been that way for a while. You know.
Ford likes to say that the F series, which includes
the F one, fifty and then the other F series
trucks above that, uh, the best selling vehicle in America.
And they sell anywhere between, depending on the year, a
half a million to eight hundred thousand a year, and
in some years they've hit a million. If you think
about all the commercial trucks and then people who use
(01:43):
them for pleasure, that's a lot of trucks. And that's
just one, you know, that's just that's just Ford. So
now you add you know, Chevrolet, gmc, RAM, Toyota, Nissa,
there's a lot of trucks out there.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Did you see.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I know you're you're a car nuts, you probably saw this.
But there was a there's a big ship off the
moast of Alaska. They caught on fire about a week
and a half ago. It had three thousand brand new
cars on it and then today it's sank and so
it's it's over. But they think that maybe the fire
on the ship was caused by some of the batteries
(02:15):
in these electric cars.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
And if you remember that happened a couple of years ago,
maybe it was three years ago out in the Atlantic, Yes,
and it was a vehicle filled with European built vehicles.
And they don't know whether the electric vehicles caused the fire,
but they do know that it's a lot tougher if
those batteries start the burning, maybe something else caught fire
and that it spread. It's really tough to put those out.
(02:39):
You know, firefighters, local firefighters are trained now and how
to do that. But on board ship systems they really
had to think about updating them to be able to
handle these fires. So when I heard this story about
the ship in the Pacific, thought, wait, didn't that already
happen though that was the another ocean with another ship.
But yeah, they're going to be changing a lot of
the maritime ways that they that they ship cars, especially
with more and more even a hybrid has a large
(03:01):
battery on board. So they've really got to reach to
do this.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
But let me ask you something, Dave, why can't they
ship the cars over separate from the batteries.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Well, that makes a really complicated process because remember the
battery is the entire floor of the vehicle if it's
a pure electric vehicle. So now you've got to ship
two different things. You can't drive the vehicle on and
off the ship. They could. They call them a row row.
It's roll on, roll off, and you'll see these crews
with a ramp and they drive the cars right on
and off the ship. Boy to do that, and they
(03:30):
have to reassemble the cars and they get back to
the other port. That would be a real real challenge.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
What's the number one selling pickup truck right now?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Is it Ford?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
It's the Sport F series. But you know we've talked
about this before. Ford's got a real hit on his
hands at the other end of the side scale with
the Maverick, and I know you look at and that
is a true compact pickup. You remember the seventies and eighties,
compact trucks were the thing. You know. There was a
Chevy Love, the Ford Courier, of course, Toyota, Nissan when
(04:00):
it was called Dotson, and those trucks grew and became
mid size, and Ford came out with the Maverick, which
is essentially the same chassis as the Broncos Sport and
the Ford Escape, and you know, they were able to
sell it for well under thirty thousand dollars, and I
know people who bought them absolutely love them. They have
different trim levels. Now they've got an off road version
(04:21):
called Tremor. I recently drove the kind of street truck
version called the Lobo that sort of lowered and has
some nice wheels on it. And this week I'm driving
Hyundai has a small one called the Santa Cruz. Wow,
they have an off road version of that. And now
Toyota and Nissan supposedly are really looking at getting back
into that smaller, less expensive truck market. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I like the small pickups. You don't need a big one.
I missed the old you know, the old Buck and Bronco.
I enjoyed that. Remember the Ford Courier, the Courier career
favor I think it was, And it was Courier.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Was made by the Curriers, made by mazdav but sold
as a Ford. And then Chevrolet had the love Uv
and that was made by a Suzu but sold by
Chevrolet dealers.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I heard that they're bringing back the Ranger. Is that
is it back?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Oh? The Ranger has been back for a while. In fact,
they're now in a new generation of Ranger. But that's
a mid size. That's still a pretty good sized truck, right,
and I think, and it's a great truck. I mean
they've done. And what Ford did. They had discontinued the
Ranger at around two thousand and eight or two thousand
and nine, and they thought, well, we don't need a
smaller truck, you know, or a few hundred bucks more.
You could just get an F one fifty. And then
when GM redesigned its mid sized trucks, which is now
(05:30):
in another generation, the Chevy Colorado and the GMC Canyon,
sales went crazy. They had to add a shift at
the factory to keep up with demand. And that had
Ford thinking, oh, maybe we shouldn't have killed off our
mid sized truck. And then they brought in one that
had been for sale in other markets. That was the
previous generation Ranger. Now they have an all new one
and that's a fantastic truck too. If you don't need
(05:51):
something huge, you know, you're not tolling a double axle
travel trailer. If you just need a truck to do
truck things, the mid sizes will usually get the job.
You don't need something that big, something like that Maverick
or that Hyundai Sana Cruz. They'll probably get the job
done too. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I enjoyed the pickup trucks.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I remember at one point they made a convertible pickup
truck that sort of never took off.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Well, they had they had a few of them. There
was a Dodge had one on the Dakota, right. And
then they remember that slick one that Chevrolet did about
twenty years ago. It was called the SSR. They kind
of had a hot rod plug. Yeah, it had a
power folding top and it had a bed that was
like fancy inside. The problem is it was, you know,
it was forty five thousand dollars and the guy they
were targeting, the guys they were targeting remembered pickup trucks
(06:36):
when they were two thousand dollars, and that didn't quite
go well. I mean, they're collector's items now. But yeah,
they made convertibles like they made convertible SUVs. Nissans prided
land Rover did it for a while.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I remember a buddy of mine in the nineteen nineties
had one and he called it the sky Ranger. It's
one of those you know, convertible Ranger ones and it
looked horrible.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Well, that was probably an aftermarket conversion, it was, And
the problem with those and companies have done that for years.
You know, you could buy a trade of sell like
a convertible before.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
But most of the guys that were doing the buildouts.
I think it was the American Sunroof company that was
doing all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
There's also a place down in Orange County and the
name is subpy Me. They've done everything. They've even recently
done a convertible Tesla and I heard her counter ring
they did a convertible Prius some years ago. The problem
with those conversions is they never looked quite as good
with the top up with the topno, well they can
they got that like Conna Stoga wagon look. And then
(07:33):
you have to hope the company stays in business if
you need a new top in fifteen or twenty years
or weather stripping.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Hey, do you think do you think delivered again? Who's
with us? Dave Koons?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Do you think deliver bring back the Mercury station wagon
with the wood panel?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Well Ford Ford got rid of Mercury a long time ago. Interestingly,
there have been concept vehicles of some of the SUVs,
you know, these wild vehicles that they sort of tease
us with, right, and on some of them they've put
the wood. It's called dynoc it's artificial woods siding. They've
put those some vehicles and people go, hey, I remember
those this. I don't know if anyone's going to be
(08:08):
so brave to do it, but they do them as
concept vehicles to kind of tease them. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I also think that if they do bring back the
Mercury Wagon, there's going to be a raised eyebrow of
putting the kids in a jump seat over a thirty
gallon gas tank.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Well, also the Bard and General Motors and well it
used to be Chrisher. They don't make sedans anymore to
make a station wagon out of. They just are out
of that business completely.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Buddy, I appreciate you coming on. You're on ABC. What
do you do once a week, twice a week, three
times a week.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Depends on how Sometimes it's three, sometimes it's one, depends
on what they need. And we've been preempt at a
lot lately. We had the NBA Final Run or stuff
like that. And you can find all my stuff at ABC,
sven dot com, slash automotive.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Excellent, buddy, thanks for coming on man, anytime to appreciate it.
All right, there he goes, Dave koons and he told me,
he said, at the end of my seg and he goes,
I always take a shot of whiskey. And you hear
it there at the end he took a shot of
whiskey there at the Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah, that's really is that true?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, he does that whenever he calls us up. He
sent me a text he goes at the end that
you can hear me take he was hear me clank
the bottle with the with the shot less and then
down it.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Like in celebration of job well done.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Or I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I think he thinks that I'm also drinking and he
doesn't wanted me to drink alone. You mean you're not
yeah yet, but I will be tonight. I imagine, all.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Right, real live when we come back.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
The thing that's exploding on airplanes are soda cans, and
we'll come back. I'll tell you what's going on with that.
Soda cans exploding on airplanes. Now we got one more
thing to worry about.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on Demand from KF
I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
The very first pick in the NBA draft is, by
the way, I call that losers city. If you've been,
if you follow the draft every year and you're not
a sportscaster, that means your team sucks and you're with
all the other losers in that auditorium looking to make
your team better.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
And.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
You hope that you follow a team that doesn't really
rely on the draft to get you better, that has
an up you know, management, and has a front office
that is wheeling and dealing and making great deals all
year long, all season long, all decade long. We don't
have to rely on the luck of the draft to
(10:29):
make you better. So the first selection is in who
was the first selection? Belliot, you used to play for
the Lakers or work for them or something with them.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I believe it's the Spurs, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I think it's Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I thought it was Dallas, but now it's saying seventy
six that the seventy six ers pick is in third pick. Yeah,
I thought it was Dallas, but I'm not a big
guy NBA guy.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Yeah, you're right, Dallas Mavericks had the first pick, and
who they pick as a kid from from Baylor or
the or Duke.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I don't know much about the NBA. I got to
rely on you, Bellio. Who they pick?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
It wasn't it? Hold on, it's.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Coming in flying in Cooper flag Cooper flag number one
from Duke.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
You would think it would say that, and it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Hold on, hold on, wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
We're going to let me put some boom in it. Yes, Duke, dude,
the Duke, Yeah, just in Duke.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
There goes to duke man.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
All right, well there he goes is going to a
Dallas and eating their food and getting their money.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Airlines, Southwest Airlines exploding soda cans exploding on the plane.
Yet another thing we all have to concern ourselves with.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
The Airlines know how to deal with high heat, how
to keep their people cool, so they limit how long
they're outside because you're not only getting the heat from
the sun, you're getting it radiating.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Off the ground.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
But these bursting cans came as a bit of a surprise.
Southwest now has a multimillion dollar solution.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Oh wait, a multi million dollars solution to forty cans blowing.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
Up for Southwest Airlines ground crews every flight is about
beating the clock, but as the temperature in Phoenix summer,
it also becomes about beating the unrelenting heat. You dread
those July August, those really hot days. I have to
be honest, I dreaded a bit. Yeah, for sure. John
Rawlings has worked the ramp for the last six summers.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Stay high. That's a tough job working the ramp in Phoenix.
Went's one hundred and thirty out.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
Stay hydrated, Stay out of the sun.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, low level advice, by the way, if you don't
mind me observing again, low level advice, stay out of
the sun and drink water.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
What would some high level advice ben't?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I don't think there is any.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I think you just have to say every man for himself.
And if you don't know to drink water and stay
out of the sun, then maybe you shouldn't be working
on the runways in Arizona in July.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
But if that is their job, what a is some workarounds.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
They you know them or you don't.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
By now, you can't tell an adult who's thirty five
how to stay how to beat the heat.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
You either know or you don't.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Sometimes we need to be real.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no no.
If you if you don't know how to beat the heat,
then stay out of it. Stay out of the kitchen.
Yeah everyone, F everyone, if everybody, including you and hurt
angels snickering, fothu F Brooker. F I don't know why Brooker,
but just F everyone, and you too, Steph, Foosh and Richie,
(13:38):
F all of you, F everyone and Kik especially Keiki
f off geek God.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
Southwest deploys roving hydration stations and aims to get ground
crews out of the heat after every flight. They work
even in the morning when it's a relatively cool ninety
five here in Phoenix. The temperature coming.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Off a cool ninety five in Phoenix.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
If we cool ninety five five here in Phoenix, the
temperature coming off the pavement is closer to one hundred
and twenty.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Well.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
During the last two summers, the Phoenix area experienced weeks
at a time above one hundred and ten degrees.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Can you know what they do at one hundred and
twenty They shut the airport down. Why do they do
that because the planes sink into the tarmac they're too heavy,
and they sink into the black top.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
Heat so hot it caused carbonated drink cans waiting to
be loaded onto flights to ripple and even burst, resulting
in some injuries to.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Crewminal five to ten.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
You started hearing the cans before you even saw them.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You could hear them deforming.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
In an effort to address the bursting cans ahead of
this summer.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
How about taking them out of the sun. Any of
you geniuses thought of that.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
Southwest bought sixty new refrigerated provisioning trucks for Phoenix. In
Las Vegas. They're two hottest hubs.
Speaker 8 (14:49):
Our summers are extending, and that product is under that
intense heat for longer periods of time.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
Steve Land oversees Southwest Provisioning Team at Phoenix Sky Harbor
Airport as they stock about two hundred flights.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Okay, what does he do? What's his job again?
Speaker 7 (15:01):
Steve Land overseas Southwest Provisioning Team at.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Phoenix Provisioning Team, provisioning team. The guy that drops off
food is now on the provisioning team. God almighty man.
Everybody has a new title that means nothing. It's all nothing.
He's on the Provisioning Team.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
West Provisioning Team on Hey, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I'm on the side Southwest, Oh you fly you pilot,
co pilot?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
No provisioning team? How out of here is it? Like Rations?
Like the Rations team? Everybody's so crazy with titles.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
We have a lot going on as always in Los Angeles,
home of the real aggressive lunatics. There's a guy who
was shooting at Waimo cars allegedly and also allegedly at
a cop. He shot one of the newer cops. I
think he's a rookie cop out of Santa Monica, and
they caught that dude. So he'll be cool in his
heels in local lock up. Then he'll probably go on trial,
(16:07):
and if he's convicted, he's probably looking at thirty to
forty years in prison for them. Really dumb move, just
really dumb, But a lot of dumb people out there.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
So what can you do?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Record travel this summer.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I know we seem it seems like sort of radio
hackish things to do, but people travel. I know Richie
is with us. He was just in Europe. Hey Richie,
can we get Richie on the Hey Guys Show? Hey,
how are you Bob? Now you just recently went to Europe, right, yes,
(16:43):
and you got to tell the story on what happened.
How many of you people were in your party for total.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Including myself.
Speaker 9 (16:49):
We booked the flight together, We selected our seats together.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I mean, we were prepared. Right, We are on our
way to.
Speaker 9 (16:57):
Lax from the valley, and then we all get red
emails literally maybe halfway to Lax, and then this email
pretty much stated that our flight has been canceled.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
And what do I just start a vacation? Really like
for real?
Speaker 9 (17:12):
But yeah, so the whole gang got emails stating that
our flight has been canceled and just to go see
your receptionists at the airport. We get there, they put
us all on four different flights. Wow, I got the
better end of the stick. I went like from Lax
to JFK within like two hours. My good friend Zoe
and Jesse a couple. Did they have to split up? No,
(17:36):
they luckily were able to stay together. But they got
the bad side pretty much. They had a fly from
Lax to San Francisco right within five hours, and then
a ten hour delay from San Francisco all the way
to Barcelolona. So could you imagine like losing a whole
day and so. But when they left San Francisco, they
(17:57):
flew right to Spain.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Correct.
Speaker 9 (17:58):
Okay, yeah, so we were When I say we, it's
myself and my friend Ian. I was fortunate enough to
get him on my flight so that way I didn't
have to go solo. So they were able to do
that for us. But you want to know what they
gave us. They didn't upgrade us. They didn't do anything
other than give us a twenty.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Five dollars no voucher. Yeah, what can I buy it
for twenty five dollars at the airport? Nothing?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Not even a charge cord bro What what airline was it?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Iberia?
Speaker 9 (18:24):
Okay, so noted if you're going to Barcelona.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Don't all right?
Speaker 9 (18:30):
But you had a good time, huh Yeah, dude, it
was so much fun, Like everything was just fun, like,
you know, first of all, just being out of you know,
California right now.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Sure it was magical. But the people were great, the
food was Were the planes crowded, yeah, it was all
a full plane. Well, the hotels crowded.
Speaker 9 (18:48):
Well, I don't know because I I well, I'm not
a good planner. But my friend Zoe, she planned the
whole trip. We were not staying like in the hotel
area because I heard that there was like a protest
going on. I guess the community out in Barcelona was
like spray watering or what was it like a water
gun or something? Oh yeah, right, a tourist. Yeah, they
were like shooting people up with water, right, But no,
(19:10):
we stayed in a nice little area. We I don't
know what she did, but she basically got in contact
with like an apartment company and we were able to
stay there kind of like an Airbnb WITHBMB.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Yeah, but it was good.
Speaker 9 (19:21):
It was like right on downtown, so excellent. It's gonna
be crowded this year, Thank you, Rachie.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Crowded traveling this year, Gang, be aware that you're not
the only person on that plane.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
As summer temperatures heat up, so does America's love for
summer travel. When you got here and you saw the crowds,
what did you think We're.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Not gonna make our plight?
Speaker 8 (19:47):
TSA, announcing it set a new all time single day record,
A screening nearly three point one million passengers at airports
nationwide Sunday, capping the first official weekend of summer. I
saw a lot of crowds and the lines, and I said,
oh my god, they leaving it and I'm coming in.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Thank you Jesus.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
The agency now bracing for a staggering holiday surge. It
expects roughly eighteen point five million passengers to fly around
the fourth of July. The busiest day Sunday the sixth.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Oh, no, Sunday, the sixth, Every the day that everyone's
flying one factor.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Industry analysts say the fourth lands on a Friday, making
for an easy three day weekend.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Four percent more flights take off over the long weekend,
so thousands more seats added for Americans who are looking
to get away.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Oh good, the vast majority a lot more seats added
for that weekend.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
That's great. Are we got to take a break.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
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Speaker 1 (20:45):
All right, lot's going on. They found the nut in
Santa Monica. They're shooting at the cops and shooting at
Waimos allegedly. I guess I'm both and shooting at Waymos.
I don't understand. I don't understand it. I don't understand
lighting them on fire. I don't understand shooting at him.
(21:07):
I mean, where are you in life? There's nobody in there,
or you know, if there's passengers, but there's nobody driving
that thing.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
It's really strange. It's strange behavior.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Because of the cameras on them, that they shoot at them.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Yeah, why would you shoot at some of the cameras on.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
Because Richie This was Richie's theory, because they think like
they're watching them, they're being exposed. I think it's maybe
like you know, people that don't like the technology they're
angry with. I think it's just really dumb people. Is
that possible?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, a lot of dopes this in the city,
a lot of really dumb people.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Yes, some things don't have an explanation to it.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Yeah that's right.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah, you can't figure it out, right, just can't figure it.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Out all right.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Robo taxis another form of these you know, way mows
and driverless cars test. First robotaxis are hitting the road.
Speaker 10 (22:04):
Tesla's first robotaxis are officially on the road.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Vers Tesla Robotaxi ride.
Speaker 10 (22:08):
Elon Musk's company launching its long awaited self driving taxi
service in Austin, Texas, offering rides to a select group.
The cost a flat rate of four dollars and twenty
cents parride.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
That's a good deal. I wonder if that's a coincidence
for twenty cost a.
Speaker 10 (22:23):
Flat rate of four dollars and twenty cents parride.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
There's no driver, there's no like ghost person up there.
Speaker 10 (22:28):
While they're technically driverless, each car still has a safety monitor,
a Tesla employee riding in the passenger seat. For now,
the service is limited to a handful of cars in
a small area of the city, but Musk has big ambitions,
not just for robotaxis, but for every Tesla.
Speaker 11 (22:43):
By the end of next year, we'll have hundreds of thousands,
if not to over a million Teslas doing self driving
in the US.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
A million Teslas that means a million cars added to
the road and a million jobs that are going away.
Speaker 10 (23:00):
Tesla calling this a precursor to the cyber Cat, which
the company says we'll go into production next year.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
You'll be able to take a riot in Stephu's you're
an Uber driver and you also drive for Lyft?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Is that true for both?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Still? That is correct?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
What's the word on the street with your fellow drivers
that they worried about these autonomous cars.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
We'll see what happens.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
People are scared to take them, you know because the
way that the drive and they don't always follow traffic regulations.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
But I mean, yeah, I mean it could be the future. Yeah,
it sounds like it is, but more horrible.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
You like to sit there and talk to the guy
drive in or the gal you know sometimes.
Speaker 11 (23:38):
Yeah, you'll be able to take a riote in those say.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
Earlier in this spot that an employee of the company
is riding shotgun, Yes for now, Yeah, how would you
like that job?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I just sit there do nothing.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I mean you literally just sit there and you're like
the tag along Mertz on that one. But it's but
it's really I don't understand why he's there, because if
you're going to get an accident, he can't react quick
enough to pull the car over or do anything. Yeah,
it's odd. I think it's just for you know, to
make people feel safer. But he he's not making it safer.
(24:15):
He just makes people feel like it's safer. I guess
I don't know, but yeah, that's an odd job.
Speaker 11 (24:19):
You'll be able to take a ride in the cybercab.
There's no steering wheel, or pedals.
Speaker 10 (24:24):
Driving development of the self driving software artificial intelligence trained
by consuming data from millions of teslas on the road.
Speaker 11 (24:31):
It's like living millions of lives simultaneously and seeing very
unusual situations that a person in their entire lifetime would
not see.
Speaker 10 (24:40):
Musk says the cyber cab and other teslas could one
day be rented out by their owners to make extra money. Wow,
Tesla taking a first step into a space where other
companies are already well ahead. Waimo currently handles two hundred
and fifty thousand paid rides a week across multiple cities,
and at least three other companies are now testing autonomous vehicles.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
You know what's going to happen in future.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Instead of buying a car, You're going to buy a
way mo or a robo taxi, and that's gonna be
your car, and then you'll decide whether that car is
going to be used on during downtime to make money.
But every I think in the future, I think our
great grandchildren will never know how to drive.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I think in thirty or forty years driving will be
over and new drivers will not have to have a
license because they won't be driving they'll be riding and
every car will be driverless.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
That's the future. That's what's going on.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
And I know you probably don't like it, but it's
where you know, you know, never you know, there's a
lot of people don't like progress at all on anything.
And if that was the case, we'd still have rotary phones.
We'd still have the Z channel or on TV or
you know, a corded phone where you have to go
to the kitchen talk to somebody. And people were afraid
(26:03):
of that progress and we all got used to it.
So we'll get used to this and we have to
because society moves on. They keep moving forward and you
have to adjust. You can't be the old guy sitting
in his house yelling at people to get off your lawn.
That's not the way to go. AI is here, robod
taxis are here, Waymo's here, and they're here to say
(26:25):
for good. So you got it used to it and
if you don't, life's going to pass you by. We're
live on KFI AM six forty Conway show on demand
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