Getting Out of the Way

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I lost confidence that we were going to get there on the business side. I can't thank Google Larry Sergey enough for the opportunity to be part of that and the team that I worked with as well, right? Amazing people. Instead, Chris wanted to be somewhere that he could set his own waypoints and reset them often and rapidly. He decided it was time to get out of the way.

To complete an audacious journey, you need to set short, achievable goals — or waypoints — to avoid getting wildly lost. But waypoints also need to be flexible because when you're knocked off track, you need to be able to realign your waypoints to get back on course. Aurora's Chris Urmson shares how he keeps returning to short, flexible waypoints on his daunting journey to make autonomous vehicles part of our everyday lives.

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