Chris Urmson: Self-Driving Cars at Aurora, Google, CMU, and DARPA

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Lex Fridman

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Chris Urmson was the CTO of the Google Self-Driving Car team, a key engineer and leader behind the Carnegie Mellon autonomous vehicle entries in the DARPA grand challenges and the winner of the DARPA urban challenge. Today he is the CEO of Aurora Innovation, an autonomous vehicle software company he started with Sterling Anderson, who was the former director of Tesla Autopilot, and Drew Bagnell, Uber’s former autonomy and perception lead. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn,

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with Chris Armson.
0:03.0	He was a CTO of the Google Subdriving Car Team,
0:05.9	a keen engineer and leader behind the Carnegie Mellon University,
0:09.7	autonomous vehicle entries in the DARPA Grand Challenges,
0:12.6	and the winner of the DARPA Urban Challenge.
0:16.0	Today he's the CEO of Aurora Innovation,
0:19.3	an autonomous vehicle software company he started
0:22.2	with Sterling Anderson who was the former director of Tesla Autopilot
0:25.9	and Drew Bagnell, Uber's former autonomy and perception lead.
0:30.0	Chris is one of the top roboticists and autonomous vehicle experts in the world,
0:34.7	and a long time voice of reason in a space that is shrouded in both mystery and hype.
0:41.2	He both acknowledges the incredible challenges involved in solving the problem of autonomous driving
0:46.4	and is working hard to solve it.
0:49.6	This is the Artificial Intelligence Podcast.
0:52.3	If you enjoy it, subscribe on YouTube, give it five stars and iTunes,
0:56.4	support it on Patreon or simply connect with me on Twitter at Lex Friedman's
1:00.6	spelled F-R-I-D-M-A-M.
1:03.2	And now here's my conversation with Chris Armson.
1:07.6	You were part of both the DARPA Grand Challenge and the DARPA Urban Challenge teams.
1:30.0	It seemed you with Red Whitaker.
1:33.3	What technical or philosophical things have you learned from these races?
1:38.4	I think the high order bit was that it could be done.
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