My other car is a cargo bike

The vehicle of the future is electric. It’s good for the environment. It has enough room for your stuff, as long as you’re coming from the grocery and not the furniture store. It’s fast, it has super-responsive steering, and you can park it basically anywhere — including your living room. That’s because the vehicle of the future isn’t a car; it’s a bike.

On this episode of The Vergecast, The Verge’s Andy Hawkins takes us on a journey through the bike-filled world he’s creating for himself. He describes his experiences with electric cargo bikes, talks about how bikes and cars and people can all coexist, and helps us figure out what really matters when you’re buying a cargo bike. He also teaches us the ways of the bike bus. All hail bike bus.

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After that, The Verge’s Lauren Feiner calls in to chat about Google. Lauren’s in court (again) for a(nother) Google antitrust trial, this time about the company’s monopoly in advertising technology. It’s not quite as juicy as the search trial was, but it’s every bit as important for the web’s most important company. Lauren has some thoughts on the trial’s early days, and some questions about where it goes next.

Finally, David tackles a question on the Vergecast Hotline (call 866-VERGE11 or email [email protected]!) about the AI industry’s desire to summarize absolutely everything. If you summarize a YouTube video instead of watching it, are you creating problems for creators? Or the world? It’s a tricky subject, but we have some thoughts.

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