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Aurora's Chris Urmson + Nuro's Jiajun Zhu | The Road Ahead for Autonomous Driving

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How Do You Approach Safety?

JZ: Because we focus on goods transportation, there's no passenger in the vehicle. And by not having a passenger vehicle, we get the opportunity to really design the vehicle from the ground up to optimize for safety for other road users. Chris: We're one of the few companies that has actually shared how we're going to convince ourselves the thing is safe to be on the road. So investing in that foundational part of this so that we don't foreclose the future I think is critically important.

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