The future of driving is autonomous with Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

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🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov is convinced that his company’s vehicles are better at driving than any human. Dmitri has spent thousands of hours riding in them, and recently Guy had the chance to try one out as well...

This week on How I Built This Lab, Dmitri recounts the decade-plus journey of building Waymo into the world’s first company to operate a fully-autonomous ride hailing service. Plus, how Waymo’s approach differs from Tesla’s, and Dmitri’s take on when we’ll see more AV’s on the roads than human-driven cars (spoiler: sooner than you may think!)

This episode was produced by Kerry Thompson with music by Ramtin Arablouei.

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1:09.0	podcast. Indeed. Welcome to how I built this lap. I'm Guy Raz. There's no driver. How crazy is this?
1:25.8	That's crazy. This is their first time ever. You're going to look at this as an adult when all
1:29.7	cars are driverless. And you're going to be like, yep, I did his driverless drive with daddy.
1:34.9	So it's probably hard to tell from the sound alone, but what you're hearing is audio from a ride.
1:40.4	I recently took in a Weymo autonomous taxi. My son and I were in San Francisco heading across the city.
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