Jan Becker has been doing automated driving before it was cool. He says there's a lot of fundamental work that is still missing in the field. "I'm never over-probescent under-deliver," he says.
The story of automated driving often starts with the DARPA Challenges of 2004-07, but for Jan Becker the story starts well before then. On this week's episode, the AV pioneer and founder of Apex AI describes his own path through a tumultuous decade for the technology, and how the class he teaches at Stanford has evolved to include a variety of critical non-technical lessons.