Chris Urmson
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Urmson: Anyone driving a commercial truck today can still retire as one
“Now, my expectation is that if you're driving a truck today and you would like to retire as a truck driver, you're going to be able to. The shortage is that dire and the opportunity to kind of grow the freight market is, is real. And so I expect that, again, y…”
Aurora expects fully driverless freight operations by late 2024 starting in Texas
“And so, yes, our expectation is by the end of next year, there will be no human. Yeah. And, you know, the way we're going to launch this is initially it'll be on one lane, Which is what you call kind of a trucking route, and that'll be between Dallas and Houst…”
Urmson predicts tens of percent of U.S. trucking becomes autonomous by 2033
“I think that's probably high for 10 years from now, but it's gonna be tens of percent is my expectation in, in a decade.”
Aurora's proprietary First Light LiDAR measures vehicle velocity instantly
“One of the core technologies we have at the company is we call it First Light, which is the special LiDAR technology. So LiDAR is using light like radar, and it allows us to see farther than other people can and see how fast things are moving instantly.”
Academic robotics values one-off video demos over repeatable operational reliability
“Unlike most academic work where, you know, the idea is to kind of have the concept and you get the robot to do the thing once and you shoot the video and then it doesn't matter if it ever does it again or if it ever did it before, you've kind of made the point…”
The 2005 DARPA Challenge united the first modern self-driving tech stack
“I think this was the first time where you saw the whole conglomeration of what is now a self-driving vehicle. We had LIDAR radar camera, we had machine learning, we had high definition maps all this stuff that is now making vehicles kind of come together in a …”
U.S. military lost more personnel on Iraq supply lines than front lines
“We lost more people on the supply line than we did on the front line in, in Iraq.”
Long-haul truck drivers are 10x more likely to die at work
“Long haul truck drivers, they're 10 times more likely to die at work than an average American”
Aurora partners with legacy automakers instead of manufacturing its own vehicles
“The thing we can do best in world is build that driving capability, and there's companies out there that have been at it for a hundred years that build vehicles, and they've got a whole lot of battle scars learning how to do that well. Let's work with them rat…”
Media attention on autonomous vehicle crashes rapidly diminishes as incidents recur
“So I remember back when I was at Google, you know, the first time we had a crash, it made national news. The second time we had a crash, it made national news, the third time it made local news, and, you know, the fourth time people stopped reporting on it, ri…”
Aurora is initially focusing its autonomous vehicle technology on trucking
“And so for us, we're focused initially on trucking. We see that as a gigantic, exciting market”
Autonomous trucks at highway speeds require over 400 meters of sensor range
“If you're driving a truck down the freeway at 65 miles an hour, you have to be looking out 404 hundred plus meters to see what's happening because there's so much momentum and inertia with that, that thing.”
Aurora already hauls commercial freight using autonomous tractors with safety drivers
“So today we haul goods for a number of our partners. And so there's an Aurora tractor with a FedEx trailer or a Hirschback trailer or a Warner or Schneider trailer. And, you know, we do this with a person in the cab monitoring the driver, but we're being paid …”
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