Engineering a Driverless Future

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Chris Urmson, co-founder and CEO of the self-driving technology startup Aurora, joins Azeem Azhar to explore the state-of-play of self-driving technology, the criticisms the tech must address, and the huge challenges to be overcome before we trust a computer to drive our kids to school.

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0:00.0	There's no shortage of tech podcasts, but few give you a true dose of the future.
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0:35.0	Hi there, I'm Azim Azar, and you're listening to Exponential View.
0:38.0	Now, every week I'm in deep conversation with a brilliant mind dissecting our world
0:42.0	and its intricate dance with technology.
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0:51.0	My guest today is an engineer and an entrepreneur accelerating us toward a driverless future.
0:56.0	Chris Ernstson is a co-founder and CEO of Aurora, a startup he founded in 2017.
1:02.0	Aurora wants to build the complete technology package. It will turn any regular car.
1:06.0	In fact, any regular road vehicle into a fully autonomous, self-driving vehicle of the future.
1:13.0	After taking full ownership of Uber's self-driving unit, the Advanced Technologies Group,
1:17.0	just a few months ago, and recent partnerships with Toyota and Truckmaker Packar,
1:22.0	Aurora is now valued at a staggering $10 billion.
1:25.0	It's not bad for a four-year-old company.
1:27.0	Aurora is aiming to enter the market with self-driving trucks and maybe even ride-hailing minivans within a few years.
1:33.0	Of course, it's an intensely competitive space, think of Waymo, Zooks and Crews in the US,
1:39.0	even Tesla, possibly Apple and a host of Chinese competitors.
1:43.0	It's a field that has suffered from early hype and under delivery.
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