Dmitri Dolgov

Co-CEO, Waymo · 1 appearance on the record.

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Dmitri Dolgov is a pioneer in autonomous vehicle technology who co-founded Google's Self-Driving Car Project in 2009. He serves as Co-CEO of Waymo, leading the development and deployment of the company's autonomous driving technology.

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The record, in short

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Google pivoted to full autonomy after test drivers slept at the wheel

“One was what we learned from people using the driver assist system. They would overtrust it. They, you know, would put on makeup and, you know, text and, you know, one guy actually fell asleep.”

Dmitri Dolgov Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 15:13 The future of driving is autonomous with Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo

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What they said10 Episodes1

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Prediction Open · timeframe Nov 2033

Dolgov: Autonomous taxis in most major US cities within 10 years

“I definitely agree with the latter, and I would not dismiss the former. 10 years is a, you know, reasonably long time, and, you know, things can happen nonlinearly.”

Dmitri Dolgov Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 38:52 The future of driving is autonomous with Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo

Assertion Supported

Google pivoted to full autonomy after test drivers slept at the wheel

“One was what we learned from people using the driver assist system. They would overtrust it. They, you know, would put on makeup and, you know, text and, you know, one guy actually fell asleep.”

Dmitri Dolgov Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 15:13 The future of driving is autonomous with Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo

Disclosure

Dolgov: Waymo accepts legal responsibility for actions of its autonomous driver

“For the actions of, you know, the Waymo driver. The responsibility, you know, lies, you know, with Waymo.”

Dmitri Dolgov Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 33:28 The future of driving is autonomous with Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo

Assertion Supported

Swiss Re study: Waymo eliminated bodily injury claims over 4 million miles

“That study that Swiss RE has done was very encouraging that when they looked at, you know, almost four million miles of, you know, our fully autonomous operation, they found that massive reduction in, you know, a hundred percent reduction in the bodily injury …”

Dmitri Dolgov Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 33:58 The future of driving is autonomous with Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo

Disclosure

Dolgov: Waymo never seriously considered manufacturing its own cars

“I don't think we ever seriously entertained building a car. It just never made sense, you know, to me, you know, or others to, you know, do that. Like we're not a car company. Building cars hard, right? There's many companies that, you know, spend a hundred ye…”

Dmitri Dolgov Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 16:54 The future of driving is autonomous with Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo

Assertion Supported

Waymo built custom LiDAR after off-the-shelf sensors proved too unreliable

“The sensors at that time, you know, didn't have the level of reliability or capability that we would need, that we would trust, you know, to go to full autonomy. So we build, you know that generation had our own lighters and, you know custom sensor suite.”

Dmitri Dolgov Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 21:43 The future of driving is autonomous with Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo

Insight

Waymo riders typically stop paying attention to the road within minutes

“What we very consistently see, and I guess I would love if To hear if that matches your experience, but once people get in the car, just, you know, after a couple of minutes, they get very comfortable and they go back to, you know, doing whatever they want to …”

Dmitri Dolgov Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 28:44 The future of driving is autonomous with Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo

Assertion Supported

Dolgov: Google gave self-driving team a 100,000-mile zero-intervention mandate

“The first one was to drive a 100,000 miles in autonomous mode. That was, you know, way more than orders of magnitude, more than, you know, what anybody has done at that time. And the second one, and, you know, actually that one turned out to be more interestin…”

Dmitri Dolgov Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 5:15 The future of driving is autonomous with Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo

Assertion Supported

Dolgov: Waymo's current vehicle generation uses 29 total cameras

“On the current generation, we have kind of all of them, including internal ones, we have 29 cameras.”

Dmitri Dolgov Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 23:13 The future of driving is autonomous with Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo

Assertion Supported

Waymo operated roughly 250 autonomous vehicles in San Francisco in late 2023

“We have a fleet in San Francisco of about 250 vehicles. You know, they're not all out at the same time, but it gives you an approximate order of magnitude.”

Dmitri Dolgov Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 35:16 The future of driving is autonomous with Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
The future of driving is autonomous with Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo	Nov 23, 2023	21m

Dmitri Dolgov

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