When trucks drive themselves with Chris Urmson of Aurora

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

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🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Chris Urmson is one of the founding fathers of the autonomous vehicle industry. He participated in three DARPA self-driving vehicle challenges before joining the team that launched Google’s self-driving car project, which later became Waymo. Eventually though, Chris saw an opportunity to scratch an entrepreneurial itch and bring his expertise to an industry that was ripe for it: trucking.

This week on How I Built This Lab, Chris talks about launching and scaling Aurora, a company that is developing autonomous systems to safely drive semitrucks on America’s freeways. Plus, Chris and Guy discuss the impact that this technology could have on the U.S. economy, as well as the millions of truck drivers working in the industry today.

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0:37.7	Hello and welcome to How I Built This Lab.
0:39.9	I'm Guy Rise.
0:40.9	So, when you think about self-driving vehicles, you might imagine something like a robot
0:45.3	taxi, you know, a car that can take you to work or school or home from a bar or a restaurant.
0:51.0	In fact, if you live in San Francisco or Phoenix or a few other test markets, you can actually
0:56.4	get a ride in a driverless car from a company like Waymo or Cruise.
1:00.5	In fact, I've actually ridden in one myself, and they're actually pretty amazing.
1:05.0	But there is a whole other industry that will be affected by autonomous vehicles as well,
1:09.8	and that's trucking, and it's a huge part of the economy.
1:13.8	According to the American Trucking Association, there are about three and a half million truck
1:18.4	drivers in the US.
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