autonomous driving

Explore "autonomous driving" with insightful episodes like "Tesla: Carmaker Now, Robotaxi Future", "Why Waymo's Robotaxis Are Hitting the Arizona Freeway", "139. will.i.am & Austin Russell: Mute the hype, amplify the product", "When trucks drive themselves with Chris Urmson of Aurora" and "HIBT Lab! Cruise: Kyle Vogt" from podcasts like ""Motley Fool Money", "WSJ’s The Future of Everything", "Masters of Scale", "How I Built This with Guy Raz" and "How I Built This with Guy Raz"" and more!

Episodes (10)

Tesla: Carmaker Now, Robotaxi Future

Tesla’s current-state results weren’t strong, but a low-price EV and the company’s robotaxi unveiling in August have investors excited. At (00:21) we talk Tesla’s down results and up market reaction, how Boeing’s backlog insulates it from short-term delivery hiccups, and why Visa’s results are boring – and that’s a-ok. Companies discussed: TSLA, BA, V Host: Dylan Lewis Guests: Jason Moser Producer: Mary Long Engineer: Dan Boyd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

enApril 24, 2024

Why Waymo's Robotaxis Are Hitting the Arizona Freeway

After years of promises that driverless cars were just over the horizon, one of the industry's biggest players is headed for the freeway. Now, for the first time, Alphabet’s Waymo is allowing robotaxis to take its employees on high-speed roads in Phoenix, Arizona without a human driver. The move comes just as the industry is facing a harsh reality after high-profile crashes: GM’s Cruise had its permits to operate driverless robotaxis pulled by the California DMV, and Waymo issued its first-ever recall after two of its cars collided with a pickup truck being towed. WSJ reporter Meghan Bobrowsky discusses what this could mean for the future of self-driving cars and where the industry is heading. What do you think about the show? Let us know on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or email us: FOEPodcast@wsj.com Further reading: Self-Driving Cars Enter the Next Frontier: Freeways Self-Driving Car Company Waymo Issues First-Ever Recall After Two Phoenix Crashes GM’s Cruise Says U.S. Is Investigating Driverless Car’s Collision With Pedestrian America’s Most Tech-Forward City Has Doubts About Self-Driving Cars Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

WSJ’s The Future of Everything

en-usMarch 15, 2024

artificial intelligence

self-driving cars

autonomous driving

waymo

transportation infrastructure

139. will.i.am & Austin Russell: Mute the hype, amplify the product

One of the biggest strikes against the tech industry is too much noise and not enough signal. But does it always pay to "show, not tell," — even about the most innovative of products? Austin Russell of Luminar Technologies believes so. At just 17 years old, Austin created revolutionary tech that would unlock autonomous driving in the future, and make safer passenger cars today. Almost as startling is how he kept his breakthrough close to his chest for five years — carefully choosing trusted team members, mentors, and industry partners before revealing his tech to the wider world. In this special episode guest-hosted by master hype-ologist will.i.am, Austin sheds light on his quiet approach to scaling, and the importance of letting the technology speak for itself.

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enJanuary 09, 2024

diversity & inclusion

When trucks drive themselves with Chris Urmson of Aurora

Chris Urmson is one of the founding fathers of the autonomous vehicle industry. He participated in three DARPA self-driving vehicle challenges before joining the team that launched Google’s self-driving car project, which later became Waymo. Eventually though, Chris saw an opportunity to scratch an entrepreneurial itch and bring his expertise to an industry that was ripe for it: trucking.

This week on How I Built This Lab, Chris talks about launching and scaling Aurora, a company that is developing autonomous systems to safely drive semitrucks on America’s freeways. Plus, Chris and Guy discuss the impact that this technology could have on the U.S. economy, as well as the millions of truck drivers working in the industry today.

This episode was produced by Chis Maccini and edited by John Isabella, with music by Ramtin Arablouei. Our audio engineer was Katherine Silva.

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How I Built This with Guy Raz

enJuly 20, 2023

technology

transportation freedom

chris urmson

aurora

self-driving technology

traffic safety

autonomous driving

job transition

HIBT Lab! Cruise: Kyle Vogt

Most of us are familiar with rideshare apps at this point. We tap a few buttons on a phone and...voila! A vehicle arrives to take you virtually anywhere you want to go. But what if these vehicles could operate entirely without a human driver? Will we one day live in a world where most cars drive themselves?

Kyle Vogt believes that autonomous vehicles will fundamentally change how we get from place to place, and soon! After being part of the team that launched the video game streaming platform Twitch, Kyle charted a new course in 2013 by founding Cruise, which was acquired by General Motors just three years later.

This week on How I Built This Lab, Kyle talks with Guy about the process of building a fleet of fully driverless ‘robo taxis’—which are now available for service in San Francisco and coming to more cities across the U.S.. Plus, the two discuss the potential of autonomous vehicles to reduce the alarming number of vehicle-related fatalities and injuries experienced every year.

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How I Built This with Guy Raz

enOctober 27, 2022

technology

startups

self-driving cars

diverse opportunities

Satellite Image Data, Moderating AI Dungeon, Consolidating Autonomous Vehicles

Our 55th Last Week in AI episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!

This week:

Find this and more in our text version of this news roundup: https://lastweekin.ai/p/114

Music: Deliberate Thought, Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

enMay 13, 2021

#110 – Jitendra Malik: Computer Vision

Jitendra Malik is a professor at Berkeley and one of the seminal figures in the field of computer vision, the kind before the deep learning revolution, and the kind after. He has been cited over 180,000 times and has mentored many world-class researchers in computer science. Support this podcast by supporting our sponsors: - BetterHelp: http://betterhelp.com/lex - ExpressVPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/lexpod If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on Apple Podcasts, follow on Spotify, or support it on Patreon. Here's the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. OUTLINE: 00:00 - Introduction 03:17 - Computer vision is hard 10:05 - Tesla Autopilot 21:20 - Human brain vs computers 23:14 - The general problem of computer vision 29:09 - Images vs video in computer vision 37:47 - Benchmarks in computer vision 40:06 - Active learning 45:34 - From pixels to semantics 52:47 - Semantic segmentation 57:05 - The three R's of computer vision 1:02:52 - End-to-end learning in computer vision 1:04:24 - 6 lessons we can learn from children 1:08:36 - Vision and language 1:12:30 - Turing test 1:16:17 - Open problems in computer vision 1:24:49 - AGI 1:35:47 - Pick the right problem

enJuly 21, 2020

natural language processing

human learning

George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles

George Hotz is the founder of Comma.ai, a machine learning based vehicle automation company. He is an outspoken personality in the field of AI and technology in general. He first gained recognition for being the first person to carrier-unlock an iPhone, and since then has done quite a few interesting things at the intersection of hardware and software. 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, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on iTunes or support it on Patreon.

enAugust 05, 2019

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

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, Facebook, Medium, or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on iTunes or support it on Patreon.

enJuly 22, 2019