1404: Alex Davies | The Grizzly Truth About How Safety Gets Tested

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Here we go with Alex Davies. Before we get into airplanes and AI and nuclear reactors and crash test dummies, tell me about Co book the destroyer.'Cause this is a essentially an orphan grizzly bear. And he gets a job in product testing, which The surprising part is bears have jobs sometimes.

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