Lex Fridman PodcastKyle Vogt: Cruise Automation | Lex Fridman Podcast #14
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EPISODE INFO
- Released
- February 7, 2019
- Duration
- 55m
- Channel
- Lex Fridman Podcast
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Kyle Vogt is the President and CTO of Cruise Automation, leading an effort in trying to solve one of the biggest robotics challenges of our time: vehicle autonomy. He is the co-founder of 2 successful companies (Cruise and Twitch) that were each acquired for 1 billion dollars. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep14-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 *PODCAST LINKS:*
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EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Lex Fridman and Kyle Vogt, Kyle Vogt: Cruise Automation | Lex Fridman Podcast #14 explores kyle Vogt on Cruise, startups, and building safe self-driving cars Kyle Vogt traces his path from Kansas robotics and BattleBots through MIT, Justin.tv/Twitch, and finally founding Cruise Automation to tackle autonomous driving. He explains how early curiosities in robotics and programming evolved into a conviction that self‑driving is the most impactful applied AI problem he could work on. A major part of the discussion covers Cruise’s evolution from retrofit highway autopilots to full driverless fleets, and how its acquisition by GM created both cultural friction and huge advantages in manufacturing and scale. Vogt also reflects on startup lessons, the grind of going from prototype to production, and his belief that large autonomous fleets at superhuman safety levels are achievable within a few years.
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