Shweta Shrivastava
Senior Director of Product Management, Waymo. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Shweta Shrivastava leads product management at Waymo focused on autonomous driving behavior and machine learning technologies. Previously, she served as Chief Product Officer at AI driver-safety company Nauto and Head of Product Management at Amazon Web Services.
1shows
1appearances
12statements
4resolved
3supported
0contradicted
75%fully supported
Everything Shweta Shrivastava said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Shrivastava: Waymo engineered for full autonomy from inception, unlike Tesla
“Since you mentioned Tesla, you know, I just want to clarify that it's a different system that we're building, right? Which is for Waymo, we started by solving the problem of fully autonomous driving without a human driver at the wheel from the get-go, right? I…”
Shrivastava: Level 5 autonomy may end up being a niche technology
“L five, I'm not sure, you know, maybe that becomes more niche, et cetera. It solves very specific use cases.”
Shrivastava: Autonomous vehicles must learn location-specific social driving norms
“A lot of driving is also social norms, right? It's if you, if you're in a particular, you know, section in San Francisco, you know, maybe it's okay for pedestrians to cross even when they don't have a walk sign, right? Another city, another intersection might …”
Shrivastava: Autonomous vehicles require a fundamentally higher MVP bar due to safety
“The concept of MVP, right, which is so Why be popular in the SaaS product management world or product management world in general has a whole new meaning here at Babel when you work on a product like this, because safety is, is, you know, top of mind for all o…”
Shrivastava: Autonomous vehicles must balance safety with assertiveness to make progress
“Hey, you can be very safe if you're not moving at all. That's not what we're building, right? We need to make sure that the riders get to their destination on time. So it has to be making, it has to be appropriately assertive and be making the right progress.”
Shrivastava: Absence of Contention in Product Work Signals Ineffective Listening
“If you're not doing enough of that, then I think you might not be listening well. Or you might not be picking on sort of the cues. Then you're just, if there's no conflict, if there's no contention, Then something is missing.”
Shrivastava: Switch to a live conversation after seven unresolved emails
“If there have been seven emails. In an email thread and you still haven't resolved the issue, just call the person or get in a room, huddle, resolve it live. But you know, the long email exchanges that don't converge and go anywhere, I feel are a waste of time…”
Shrivastava: Waymo models detect pedestrian gaze and body orientation for intent
“We have you know, deep learned models that can understand what the other road user's intent is. So stuff like, you know, which way the pedestrian is looking, right? Or what is their body orientation? Because that could tell you know, what, which way they're he…”
Shrivastava: Waymo calls unbuckled passengers and displays sensor perception inside vehicles
“The, if they're not wearing the seatbelt, the writer support would call them, right? So then they know, okay, there's a human. That they can reach out to if they have an issue, they can look at the monitor in the car, right? To understand what the car is seein…”
Shrivastava: Waymo slows down on steep San Francisco hills for comfort
“We realized that for driving in the, in sort of the slopes or the gradients you know, the street with inclines in, in San Francisco, there are many of those, right? The human brain is trained to, or the human drivers are sort of, you know, subconsciously, they…”
Shrivastava: Waymo vehicles cannot drive in snow yet
“In terms of the blocker, I would say the technology is there, but it still needs improvement, especially, you know, we were not able to drive in snow yet, right? Something that we have to tackle in future.”
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| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 LENNY'S PODCASTLEDGER | Senior Director of Product Management, Waymo | 1 | 12 | 75% 3/4 | full record on Lenny's Podcast → |