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Lex Fridman PodcastChris Urmson: Self-Driving Cars at Aurora, Google, CMU, and DARPA | Lex Fridman Podcast #28
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- Released
- July 22, 2019
- Duration
- 44m
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Chris Urmson was the CTO of the Google Self-Driving Car team, a key engineer and leader behind the Carnegie Mellon autonomous vehicle entries in the DARPA grand challenges and the winner of the DARPA urban challenge. Today he is the CEO of Aurora Innovation, an autonomous vehicle software company he started with Sterling Anderson, who was the former director of Tesla Autopilot, and Drew Bagnell, Uber's former autonomy and perception lead. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep28-sb See below for timestamps, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc. *CONTACT LEX:* *Feedback* - give feedback to Lex: https://lexfridman.com/survey *AMA* - submit questions, videos or call-in: https://lexfridman.com/ama *Hiring* - join our team: https://lexfridman.com/hiring *Other* - other ways to get in touch: https://lexfridman.com/contact *OUTLINE:* 0:00 - Introduction 1:09 - CMU and the DARPA Challenges 5:12 - Red Whittaker and Leadership 12:54 - Hardest part about autonomous driving 14:00 - LIDAR 16:42 - Sensor suite cost 19:19 - Level 2 autonomy and the human factor 24:28 - Level 4 autonomy and demonstrating safety 32:00 - Public perception 34:40 - Deployment at scale 38:25 - Most impactful breakthroughs 39:50 - Pedestrian and cyclists 42:25 - Aurora path forward *PODCAST LINKS:*
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EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Lex Fridman and Chris Urmson, Chris Urmson: Self-Driving Cars at Aurora, Google, CMU, and DARPA | Lex Fridman Podcast #28 explores Chris Urmson on Safely Scaling Real-World Self-Driving Car Technology Chris Urmson, veteran of CMU, DARPA challenges, Google, and now CEO of Aurora, reflects on the technical and philosophical evolution of autonomous vehicles from early desert races to complex urban environments.
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