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The Moonshot Factory

Land of the Giants

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Thrun - The Most Boring Thing on the Planet

Thrun was a tenured professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford. His career had basically been about chasing another frontier in computing, self-driving cars. The US military has long been interested in self-driving vehicles because if you could move military supplies and cargo into combat zones without human drivers, you could save lives.

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