Waymo's John Krafcik on Lyft partnership, self-driving trucks and more (Episode 8)

Shift: A podcast about mobility

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4.6 • 37 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Pete talks with John Krafcik on the latest developments from Waymo, including the company's fifth-generation self-driving system and international aspirations. Leslie and Pete share takeaways from the Shift event held in Mountain View, California, earlier this month.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone welcome to shift the podcast about mobility. I'm your host, Pete Bigelow.
0:13.9	Joining me today in the studio is our shift mobility
0:17.0	editor, Leslie Allen.
0:18.0	Welcome Leslie.
0:18.9	Thank you so much, Pete.
0:19.9	Good to be back.
0:20.8	Good to have you.
0:22.3	So I don't want to bury the lead for our
0:23.9	listeners here today. I'm very excited to have Wamow Chief Executive Officer
0:28.7	John Kraftjik on as our guest today and that comes as part of a look back at the 10-year history of the Google
0:37.9	self-driving car projects. Both of us were at an event last week in Mountain View to kind of commemorate that.
0:44.0	That's right.
0:45.0	What were your kind of takeaways or some big thoughts after our trip out west?
0:50.0	Okay, well now that I recovered from the Red Eye flight back to Detroit, it was a wonderful
0:56.5	conference because we not only looked back at the 10 years of the Waymo Self-driving
1:01.5	project, we also looked at the anniversary of
1:05.4	DARPA the urban challenge and also the grand challenges that really served as
1:11.9	the springboard for a lot of the autonomous technology
1:15.7	that we're seeing today.
1:16.8	We got a chance to meet some of the people who were originally
1:20.1	involved with those DARPA teams and that was great.
1:24.0	In terms of the key takeaways, Pete, I would say that we learned that a lot of technology
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