Justyna Zander – Cars that Drive Themselves

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

To paraphrase the sci-fi writer William Gibson, "The future is already here. It's just unevenly distributed." The fact is, the technology for self-driving cars exists today. So why doesn't everyone have one?
"Cost," says Justyna Zander. For the past 12 years, Zander has been working on self-driving cars in various capacities, at various companies. As Zander explains, just because a technology exists, doesn't mean it can be mass-produced at high volumes. Before technology can become ubiquitous, it has to be economical.

But there's also the question of how you define "self-driving."
Technically, when you activate cruise control in your car, you're delegating a certain task to automation. By degrees—even by small degrees—self-driving cars are already on our roads. Today. So the better question is, "To what degree are cars already self-driving?" The answer varies, explains Zander. Complete automation is still mostly theoretical, especially in busy, complex urban environments.
Tune in to hear Justyna Zander's full take on the issue, including the role NVIDIA might play. Subscribe, review, and if you like what we're doing, consider donating a few BitCoins to the cause. Every little bit helps us continue producing and sharing great content with listeners like you.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:07.9	Future Technologies always to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast.
0:13.6	Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.
0:17.7	We're just around the corner.
0:19.7	From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,
0:22.0	3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:25.9	Hi, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast.
0:29.1	I have a great guest, Justina Zander.
0:32.1	We're going to be talking about autonomous driving and some Nvidia, possibly possibly related projects justina how you're
0:38.9	doing well I'm doing very well thank you yeah thanks for coming so if you
0:44.7	would can you let listeners know what you do and we'll you know ease into the topic
0:49.7	that way working on self-driving cars and generally autonomous transportation for multiple years now,
0:57.7	now I think more or less 12 years in various capacities and also at various companies and
1:05.9	startups. That's great. So, you know, what specifically you're working on in the realm of autonomous vehicles, you know, helping the vehicle navigate or, you know, what are the, like a little bit more specifically, what projects are you working on?
1:20.4	So right now, I'm working on software, hardware, co-design, and the architecture for autonomous driving and
1:29.5	mapping for self-driving cars.
1:32.2	Oh, interesting.
1:32.9	So what are some of the challenges in getting this rolled out?
1:36.8	You know, not everyone has a self-driving car, not even close.
1:40.4	So what's taking it so long?
1:43.1	So, you know, it depends how we look at the problem.
1:46.8	There are multiple challenges, obviously. One of them in terms of making it mass production is the cost.
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