The company is building the driving system and not the truck itself. "We have pride in what we do well, but we have the humility to understand that other people do things really well too," he says. It allows us to help our partners grow their businesses, allow their customers to grow theirs. And then presumably you can take that technology and put it in cars.
Tesla’s self-driving ambitions (and the company’s recent recall) may dominate the conversation when it comes to autonomous driving, but they’re not the only players in the space. This week, Kara’s talking to CEOs whose driverless vehicles are being roadtested. First up: Chris Urmson, co-founder and CEO of Aurora, which will launch its driverless truck service next year in Texas. They discuss safety, job displacement and the time that Kara tried to hit Urmson with his own driverless car. (Spoiler alert: It didn’t work.)
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