Shrivastava: Waymo calls unbuckled passengers and displays sensor perception inside vehicles
Shweta Shrivastava · Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco) · Apr 9, 2023 · at 13:40
Shweta Shrivastava, product leader at Waymo, describes in-car passenger features and support mechanisms designed to establish rider trust in driverless vehicles.
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“The, if they're not wearing the seatbelt, the writer support would call them, right? So then they know, okay, there's a human. That they can reach out to if they have an issue, they can look at the monitor in the car, right? To understand what the car is seeing.”
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