Ferguson: Nuro deploys faster than robotaxis by prioritizing safety over passenger comfort
Dave Ferguson · HIBT Lab! Nuro: Dave Ferguson · Jan 19, 2023 · at 23:56
Dave Ferguson, co-founder of Nuro, discusses why zero-occupant delivery vehicles have an engineering and deployment advantage over passenger autonomous vehicles.
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“Now when you remove passengers, you still have to nail safety, but like our groceries don't care if we're a little bit more of a defensive driver than you or I might want our driver to be. We're okay with taking our foot off the gas. If we think we've seen something until we get enough additional sensor measurements to get confidence that, okay, there's actually nothing there. Now we can put our foot on the gas again. And that means that we can, we believe, do a really, really fantastic job from a safety perspective and still be able to get a system that we're able to deploy out into the real world much faster because we don't have to be worried as much about the comfort side.”
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