So in this case the truck trying to make a lane change over and for some reason

somebody sees a big self-driving truck and it's like I'm just gonna cut in anyway.

I don't know how many you drove here today but I expect you had an experience like

this today right it just happens on the road

often with BMW drivers it strikes me that I guess there goes that partner. Fully autonomous.

Fully autonomous vehicles are closer to commonplace than you might expect as cars and big rigs

gain the ability to operate safely on our streets and highways.

As one of the pioneers in the field, Chris Ermsen has been there almost from the

beginning competing in the landmark DARPA Grand Challenge before going on to lead

Google's self-driving car initiative. Now he's following through on the vision as the CEO of

Aurora, which is developing self-driving technology for use by a variety of car

and truck manufacturers. I'm GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop. On this episode of the GeekWire

podcast, we're playing highlights from Mike conversation with Chris Eronson at the recent GeekWire

Summit, starting with his explanation of Aurora's approach.

So we found it Aurora about six years ago with the mission to deliver the benefit to self-driving technology safely quickly and broadly.

And what we're building is the driver technology.

So we don't want to build trucks or cars.

There's people who do that really well.

We don't want to go and build Uber or FedEx or any of the carriers.

There's people who do that well.

We want to just build the driving technology

to power those businesses.

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