Taggart Matheson

Chief Product Officer, LogicMonitor · 2 appearances on the record.

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Matthiesen is best known for serving as Vice President and Director of Product at Lyft, where he spearheaded autonomous driving initiatives and transportation products. Earlier in his career, he led Twitter's Data Product Group and served as Senior Director of Product at Salesforce.

7statements → 7claims → 2claims resolved → 3.71/5average certainty → 2/5average debate potential →

2 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 5 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

3 predictions · 4 assertions · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 5 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Taggart argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Matheson: No Company Has Achieved Level 4 or Level 5 Autonomous Driving

“First of all, no one's at true level five or even level four at this point, and to do that at scale in all different kinds of conditions from rain to snow, even in a geographically confined area at a point where you figured out the economics, I think is going …”

Taggart Matheson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:27 a16z Podcast | Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?

How they sound: speaking style how? →

266 words/min while actually speaking · 1.7 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Taggart Matheson: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to 2,368 words across 2 episodes, but every recording we have of Taggart Matheson is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. How it's measured →

What they said7 Episodes2

Everything Taggart Matheson said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Matheson: Tele-operators will assist scene understanding, not directly drive

“I don't think they're going to be driving the car. I would almost argue that it helps the car understand the scenario or the scene, and then leave it up to the vehicle to then do that navigation and motion control.”

Taggart Matheson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:50 a16z Podcast | Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Matheson: Autonomous vehicle sensor suites are currently economically infeasible

“If you look at the sensor suite on these vehicles, it's not economically feasible.”

Taggart Matheson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:34 a16z Podcast | Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Matheson: Autonomous vehicles will initially launch in small localized pockets

“What you're going to see over the next couple of years is small pockets of innovation where over time, more and more vehicles are going to be operating in greater situations in terms of level four.”

Taggart Matheson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:56 a16z Podcast | Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?

Assertion Supported

Matheson: No Company Has Achieved Level 4 or Level 5 Autonomous Driving

Taggart Matheson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:27 a16z Podcast | Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?

Assertion Supported

Matheson: Over 90% of vehicle accidents can be avoided with autonomous driving

“Ninety-some-odd percent of vehicle accidents can be avoided, and so I think this is a huge opportunity for us to change that.”

Taggart Matheson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:32 a16z Podcast | Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Matiasen: Simulated AV riders still instinctively check for oncoming traffic

“It was not an autonomous vehicle, but we stated that it was an autonomous vehicle for some user research, and one of the interesting things was we had a button that basically said start ride, and we said, oh, you know, the car's autonomous, you don't have to w…”

Taggart Matheson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:30 a16z Podcast | Cars and Cities, the Autonomy Edition

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Matiasen: AV sensor data will evolve cities out of traffic congestion

“I think as these cars evolve, the sensors that are on these cars and the amount of data that we're picking up allows us to basically get this heartbeat in the city of where all of these cars are, what the traffic patterns look like. And on a long enough timeli…”

Taggart Matheson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:44 a16z Podcast | Cars and Cities, the Autonomy Edition

Appearances (2)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?	Jan 2, 2019	4m
a16z Podcast \| Cars and Cities, the Autonomy Edition	Jan 2, 2019	6m

Taggart Matheson

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