Chris Urmson
6 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 20, 2023 by Chris Urmson · said 3 times in 1 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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Jul 20, 2023 bullish
Jul 20, 2023 bullish
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…”
Jul 20, 2023 positive
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 …”
Jul 20, 2023 neutral
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…”
Jul 20, 2023 positive
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…”
Jul 20, 2023
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…”