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Ferguson: Nuro secured federal exemption to operate vehicles without controls
“That was actually our second generation vehicle. So a couple years ago we got that exemption for the vehicle that we are today actively operating out in, in California and Texas.”
Ferguson: Nuro retains roughly $1 billion on its balance sheet
“We are trying to be very, very thoughtful about how we manage our burn as a company where we spend every dollar and how we ensure that with the balance sheet that we still have, you know, we still have roughly a billion dollars on the balance sheet that we can…”
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…”
Ferguson: Google's early self-driving car project incorporated ML first into behavior prediction
“When I got there, I actually worked on, on the prediction system. So this was trying to predict what other agents, other road users were going to do. And so this was some of the first machine learning that, that we incorporated into the self-driving car projec…”
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.”
Ferguson: Over 20 million Americans live in food deserts
“Over twenty million people in the US live in food deserts, which we think we can make a significant dent in if we're able to provide this service across all across all neighborhoods and cities.”
Ferguson: Nuro vehicles use thermal cameras alongside LiDAR, radar, and cameras
“They use a bevy of sensors, you know, somewhat similar to cruise and Waymo where we have cameras, we have LIDARs, we have radars, we have thermal cameras as well to help detect people and other living beings at night in particular.”
Ferguson: Nuro operates regular driverless vehicle services in the Bay Area and Houston
“We have regular operation, fully driverless custom vehicles in both the Bay Area and in Houston, and we're constantly expanding the regions over which we're operating.”
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…”