Katt Williams slams autonomous cars as Joe Rogan explores dark future of driving (2024)

COMEDIAN Katt Williams and Joe Rogan painted a dark picture of the future of driving in a wild podcast episode on Thursday.

Williams, 52, joined the Joe Rogan Experience and gave his thoughts on the move toward driverless cars while calling vehicles that he currently drives his "sacred place."

On the podcast episode, Rogan was quick to bring up Williams' all-electric Rolls-Royce Spectre worth $450,000.

Rogan gushed over the car, insisting, "That thing is insane."

"Just the way the doors open up, the way the doors close when you touch the brakes, totally silent," he said.

Williams admitted that for the price point, "it would have to be perfect," adding, "the whole thing is, it is."

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"That's what you're trying to do in any genre," he said.

"You're trying to find that thing that thing that is flawless in any genre. And that's it."

Rogan then revealed that he's never owned a Rolls-Royce, while Williams said he'd had four or five.

Williams said it made sense that Rogan hadn't bought a Rolls-Royce, as it's important to Rogan to stay "grounded in the important ways."

They then went back and forth about some of their favorite cars and why driving them is so special.

Williams said, “We live vicariously through these things and it's been that way for all of humankind.

"It was still like that for the Roman and his chariot."

Rogan said the "only object" that he is really into is "mechanical vehicles."

"I love looking at them, I love sitting in them, I love driving them,” he said.

While noting that money can't make you happy, Rogan said that "if you're already reasonably happy and you can afford a nice muscle car, god damn you'll feel happier."

"Every time," Williams agreed. "You feel like that character in that movie."

“It’s a sacred, scared place," he said. "There’s music there, there’s recklessness, but there’s safety.

“You know, it's like it gets to the essence of a being.”

The conversation then turned to the future of driving, including the darker possibilities that could come with innovation.

Rogan said he believed that all cars could be autonomous, meaning self-driving, in 100 years, changing the auto industry and driving experience as we know it.

“It’s a thing that won’t exist 100 years from now,” he said of getting behind the wheel and driving a car yourself.

“I think automated driving will be mandatory. I really do. I think we are about 100 years away.

“100 years away from no personal automobiles, no control over your vehicle."

Rogan said that advocates for autonomous driving often boast that self-driving cars will "stop all crashes" and prevent "all highway deaths" in the future.

Williams chimed in, agreeing that automated cars "will be mandatory."

“But for practical reasons," he said. "Like this thing where the police want you and they have to chase you and you may get away.

“Those days are done.

“Your car is going to do what they tell it to do, which is get behind this patrol car and follow us to the station.”

Rogan has shared his love for vehicles in the past, recently chatting with Elon Musk about Tesla's new Cybertruck.

He labeled the bulletproof vehicle "the coolest looking production car ever made,"even shooting an arrow at one of the Teslas to show its durability.

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The Cybertruck "flattened the tip of the arrow," Rogan said on his podcast.

He also said the 545-grain arrow "barely scratched" the Cybertruck, leaving only a minor dent.