Dolgov: Google gave self-driving team a 100,000-mile zero-intervention mandate
Dmitri Dolgov · The future of driving is autonomous with Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo · Nov 23, 2023 · at 5:15
Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov discusses the founding goals given to Google's secret autonomous vehicle project in 2009 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
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“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 interesting and much more challenging, was to drive 10 routes. Each one was about a hundred miles long, and, you know, they were, you know, very carefully selected, I think, by, you know, by Larry and Sergey personally, and they were, you know, fairly devious in how they created them to make it interesting and the goal was to drive each one from beginning to end in full autonomy, so with no human intervention, which at that time, you know, seemed You know, almost impossible.”
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