Dave Ferguson

5 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 19, 2023 by Dave Ferguson · said 3 times in 2 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Jan 19, 2023
Assertion Supported
Ferguson: Americans take nearly 100 billion personal vehicle trips annually for errands
“Almost half of all personal vehicle trips that we take today are for shopping and running errands, so that's almost a hundred Billion trips every year just in the US.”
Dave Ferguson Jan 19, 2023 ▶ 12:32 HIBT Lab! Nuro: Dave Ferguson
Jan 19, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ferguson: Package delivery will piggyback on on-demand autonomous trips
“And that's what I think genuinely is the future of package delivery. It's that the packages are going to effectively come along for the ride with another on-demand delivery that you are going to get anyway, and I think that's the best possible end consumer exp…”
Dave Ferguson Jan 19, 2023 ▶ 37:32 HIBT Lab! Nuro: Dave Ferguson
Jan 19, 2023 positive
Insight
Ferguson: Removing human occupants allows AVs to prioritize external pedestrian safety
“If you can relax the constraints for an on-road vehicle to not have to put people in it, then in many ways you can almost entirely rethink what vehicle design is. And in particular, you can make a lot of safety optimizations for the vehicle itself that largely…”
Dave Ferguson Jan 19, 2023 ▶ 15:38 HIBT Lab! Nuro: Dave Ferguson
Jan 19, 2023 negative
Assertion Supported
Ferguson: Nuro laid off 20% of staff after overly aggressive growth
“You know, Jay-Z and I have often said that the building the neuro team is what we're most proud of, and here we were having to cut roughly 20% of it, and that was all on us for growing too aggressively and being too optimistic about the market and funding cond…”
Dave Ferguson Jan 19, 2023 ▶ 33:02 HIBT Lab! Nuro: Dave Ferguson
Jan 19, 2023
Disclosure
Ferguson: Nuro is a general robotics company, not just self-driving delivery
“When we created Neuro, it really, it wasn't and isn't a self-driving company, nor a self-driving delivery company. It's really a general robotics company”
Dave Ferguson Jan 19, 2023 ▶ 10:58 HIBT Lab! Nuro: Dave Ferguson
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