Why the UK can be an autonomous vehicles leader – Gavin Jackson, CEO, Oxa

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🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Oxa CEO Gavin Jackson explains why the UK is well-positioned to be a leader in autonomous vehicles, breaks down Oxa’s strategy for commercialisation, and unpacks who is liable in the event of an autonomous vehicle crashing.

Oxa, formerly known as Oxbotica, is developing software for autonomous vehicles. Founded in 2014, it is focusing on passenger transportation and industrial autonomy. It has raised more than £150m in funding, including from Google parent company Alphabet. The Oxford-headquartered company recently announced a commercial partnership with a passenger shuttle service in Florida, US. Oxa has been sharing industry input into the UK’s Automated Vehicles Bill, which is currently progressing through parliament. Jackson, who previously held senior leadership positions at Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, was appointed CEO of Oxa in December 2021.

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0:00.0	In the build-up to that, the evolution of that, we have to augment human-driven vehicles
0:11.4	with software-driven vehicles. And that requires then for humans and robots in this case
0:18.3	to coalesce, to be on the same road systems and to play nice and together.
0:23.6	There'll be more regulation, more standards that will follow the AB bill.
0:29.6	So it really is the through the looking glass moment, it's the first domino, if you will.
0:36.6	One of the big sort of eureka moments eventually for autonomy in the everywhere autonomy problem
0:41.1	will be autonomous deliveries to your home. There are several things to solve before we get there.
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1:18.8	Hello and welcome to the UKTN podcast, a weekly chat with the movers and shakers of the UK tech industry
1:29.2	and the destination for all things UK tech related. I am your host, Jane Wakefield,
1:35.0	and this week I am joined by Gavin Jackson, the CEO at OXA, formerly known as Oxbottica.
1:41.1	The firm is a leader in autonomous vehicle software. Welcome, Gavin. Great to be here.
1:46.6	Thanks for having me. Now, first of all, Oxa has been described as providing the operating
1:52.3	system for driverless cars. So let's just have a little brief explanation of what it is that you guys do.
1:58.6	Absolutely. So we, from the very beginning of the company that was founded back in 2014,
2:04.0	our founder, Professor Paul Newman, who was the lead professor at Oxford University,
2:09.1	had a vision for what he called universal autonomy.
2:13.0	And that's to say that all vehicles that perform jobs for humans,
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