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Chris Urmson on Aurora and the future of autonomous vehicles

The Robot Brains Podcast

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Trucking - The Right First Application

We thought this technology would unlock the ability to see far enough so that you could when you couple that with computer vision, when you coupled tat with some of the long range automotive radars, you'd actually get a robust sensing sweet. And as we look at the economic opportunity, trucking feels like the right first application. The value of that capability is higher in trucking than it is in moving people. Right its truck driver gets paid about three times as much as a right hailing driver. As we think about bringing a driver to market that works beside humans driving vehicles, just a bigger economic opportunity there.

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