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I'm Pete Bigelow, your host.

Hi, Pete, it's good to hear from you,

and hello everyone, welcome to the show.

Joining us today is Ranauk Boz,

the chief technology officer of UK startup humanizing autonomy.

Leslie, I'm sorry you missed this interview.

It's been, it's really interesting to hear a little bit about this very unusual company.

Yeah, humanizing autonomy, so it certainly is an intriguing name.

Can you give us a little bit of a preview about what they do?

You know, I'd say that their premise is this. Automation thus far has been a one-way street in which the cars are making decisions about what they see ahead and proceeding accordingly.

And what's missing essentially is a bridge into inferring what humans and other road actors, bicyclists might actually be doing and kind of predicting their behavior.

So maybe teaching the automated system some of the subtleties that we as human drivers might pick up on.

I imagine that's what that is.

I would say more human pedestrians and bicyclists, not so much other cars,

but very much kind of figuring out

what the behavior of human beings is

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