Tim Kentley-Klay and Jesse Levinson (Zoox) - Self-Driving Cars for Everyone

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

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🗓️ 17 May 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Tim Kentley-Klay and Jesse Levinson, co-founders of autonomous-vehicle startup Zoox, detail a not-too-distant future when we’ll get into their cars and do nothing other than say where we need to go. In conversation with Stanford Professor of the Practice Tina Seelig, the two entrepreneurs explain how self-driving cars work and how their fleet of electric vehicles could make owning a ride obsolete.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.3	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:19.0	On today's episode, we have Tim Kentley Clay and Jesse Levinson, co-founders of Zooks, a remarkable robotics company building autonomous vehicles and the supporting ecosystem.
0:30.3	Tim is the company's CEO, and Jesse is a chief technology officer.
0:35.0	Prior to Zooks, Tim founded three successful international design companies,
0:39.5	and Jesse earned his PhD in computer science at Stanford, where he led the team behind Stanford's
0:44.9	self-driving car that won the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. So we've our CTO and our CEO of this company, can you get us a little story of how you got here?
0:57.8	Maybe each of you can give us a little bit of time to tell your story of how you ended up here sitting here on the stage.
1:04.5	Sure.
1:06.2	You know, I think for me, my journey in robotics started around 2012 when I was watching from Melbourne,
1:14.3	Australia, from one of my animation studios, what Google was doing with their self-driving car
1:18.5	program.
1:19.9	Sitting here today, looking back, they kind of, I think, lied to us.
1:23.4	They made it look a little bit easier than what it actually is.
1:26.0	But for me at the time had the insight that AI and mobility, autonomy and mobility,
1:32.1	is about much more than just incremental adaptation to the automobile.
1:37.4	It's more than an autopilot feature for a freeway.
1:40.5	This technology is going to reboot mobility as we know it.
1:44.8	The previous mobility age before the automobile was, of course, the horse and carriage.
1:48.9	And we're actually in that age for around 6,000 years.
1:50.9	It's around 4,000 BC.
1:52.2	We domesticated the horse, put the axle on the wheel, and got coach building.
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