Darpa's goal was to get young men and women out of harm's way, right out of the logistic supply chain. And so they had this challenge where they invited teams from across the country, and, in fact, from around the world,. The idea was it would set off from a town in california outside of bale, drive across the desert to los vegas. I was the technical director for our team. We built this, just amazing, a humpeys, o bright red humpey where cut the top off of it, put an electronic enclosure in there, a youare whitling in....
Chris Urmson the CEO of Aurora, a leading self-driving company, joins Jason to recount the history of autonomous vehicles (1:06), the roadmap for removing human drivers (16:47), what technology problems are left to solve (38:25) and more!