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Jan 2022
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Pete Buttigieg is racing to keep up with...

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About this episode

In this special, Thursday episode of Decoder, Andrew Hawkins spoke with secretary of transportation Pete Butigieg ahead of his speech at CES 2022.

2021 was an eventful year for Buttigieg, the youngest and arguably the most notable person to take on the role of transportation secretary in many years. Congress passed President Joe Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan, which will provide billions of new funding for the creation of a national network of electric vehicle charging stations. The secretary and Andrew talked about that, about self driving vehicles, and of course, Tesla.


Links:

Secretary Pete Buttigieg on the future of transportation

The Verge CES hub

Biden signs $1 trillion infrastructure package into law

The investigation into Tesla Autopilot’s emergency vehicle problem is getting bigger


Transcript:

https://www.theverge.com/e/22633231


Credits:

Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone, and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright.

The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Sr Audio Director is Andru Marino and our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan.

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