Recode Decode: Chris Urmson, CEO, Aurora

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2017

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Chris Urmson, the CEO of Aurora and former CTO of self-driving cars at Google, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about when autonomous vehicles will replace human-driven ones. Urmson, who started working on the technology at Carnegie Mellon University in the mid-2000s, predicts we'll see fleets of self-driving cars on some roads within five years, but that they won't completely take over for at least 30 years. He talks about the remaining challenges to making these vehicles completely safe — including the danger of their operators becoming complacent about the technology — and how their arrival will impact everything from government to public transportation to fast-food jobs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:17.7	Today in the Red Chair is Chris Irmson, the CEO of Aurora.
1:22.5	Chris was previously the CTO of self-driving cars at Google, and he co-founded Aurora
1:27.6	last year along with Sterling Anderson and Drew Bagnell, who ran their own self-driving
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