Let waypoints guide you, w/Aurora's Chris Urmson
Masters of Scale
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4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
To complete an audacious journey, you need to set short, achievable goals — or waypoints — to avoid getting wildly lost. But waypoints also need to be flexible because when you're knocked off track, you need to be able to realign your waypoints to get back on course. Aurora's Chris Urmson shares how he keeps returning to short, flexible waypoints on his daunting journey to make autonomous vehicles part of our everyday lives.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Bob Safian. You've been hearing me as the host of rapid response in this feed for a few years now, |
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| 0:31.2 | I'll see you on the other side. |
| 0:34.0 | Differential pressure is one of the biggest things you have to worry about is a diver. |
| 0:36.8 | So anywhere there's suction, because you want to get stuck underwater. |
| 0:47.0 | That's Mandy Hammerston, recounting just one of the skyscrapers downtown. |
| 1:14.8 | And it's this big structure. |
| 1:19.2 | There are four pumps. |
| 1:20.6 | They had to keep one pump running |
| 1:21.9 | and they're gonna have it on low. and in my mind I had pictured it being about five feet maybe ten feet tall when you get up to it it's like 15 closer to 20 feet |
| 1:35.0 | You know as you're getting close with this dark ominous object, we know to kind of stay away from this area. |
| 1:38.0 | Being comfortable and uncomfortable situations is what you do as a diver. |
| 1:49.0 | One way to be comfortable with that discomfort is planning each dive, whether it's in 30 degree water beneath 18 feet of Arctic ice a lake filled with poisonous |
| 1:55.3 | industrial chemicals or navigating around huge suction pipes that can trap |
| 1:59.8 | you underwater. It's a skill I admire, especially as often even seeing just a few feet ahead is a challenge |
| 2:07.0 | when you're working underwater. Usually visibility isn't that great for commercial divers. |
| 2:12.1 | Like I've had a lot where you put your hand in front of your face plate |
| 2:15.0 | and you see nothing. |
| 2:16.0 | It's just black and you can't even see changes of shadows. |
| 2:18.0 | You're like, okay, this is going to be a good one. |
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