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Shift: A podcast about mobility

Waymo’s Trent Victor reconstructs deadly crashes to inform AV safety (Episode 126)

Shift: A podcast about mobility

Automotive News

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4.637 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Trent Victor, director of safety research and best practices, dives into Waymo’s efforts to simulate how its virtual driver would have performed in real-life crash scenarios culled from its metro Phoenix operating area. He also details his previous work on crash avoidance at Volvo.

Transcript

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0:28.9

To learn more, visit Sheffler.

0:31.3

US. Hi everybody. Welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility. I'm your host Pete Bigelow.

0:54.5

Hi everybody, it's Leslie Allen and to our listeners in the US I hope you had a very nice

1:00.0

Thanksgiving weekend.

1:02.0

Joining us on the podcast today back from the break is Trent Victor.

1:07.0

He's Waimo's director of safety research and best practices.

1:10.0

He's going to walk us through a lot of the really interesting research that Weimo has conducted over the past year and continues to to look into.

1:20.0

But first, Leslie, how are you doing today?

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I am doing fine.

1:25.0

I am recovering from a very nice and restful Thanksgiving weekend.

1:29.0

I hope you had a very nice holiday as well, Pete.

1:32.0

And we're just now getting back to work and

1:35.4

catching up on what's going on in the exciting world of mobility. I know there were

1:40.4

a couple of stories that were breaking just as we left for the holiday.

1:44.6

It would be great if you could fill a cent on a couple of the more interesting developments

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