Cara Swisher: It's Cara Week here at On. And you are in San Francisco, an epicenter of innovation. How do you change a city from sort of a car-centric city to one that's not? Today we have an interview with Chris Ermsen, the CEO of the autonomous driving company Aurora Innovations. Tequita Mahalcona, the co-CEO of Waymo, which is formerly known as Google Self-Driving Car Project.
Tesla’s self-driving ambitions (and the company’s recent recall) may dominate the conversation when it comes to autonomous driving, but they’re not the only players in the space. This week, Kara’s talking to CEOs whose driverless vehicles are being roadtested. First up: Chris Urmson, co-founder and CEO of Aurora, which will launch its driverless truck service next year in Texas. They discuss safety, job displacement and the time that Kara tried to hit Urmson with his own driverless car. (Spoiler alert: It didn’t work.)
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