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Chris Urmson: Aurora CEO - Autonomous Driving

Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott

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Adaptive Cruise Control and Electronic Stability Control - What's the Problem?

The auto industry does incredibly well is like they understand manufacturing for safety, perhaps better than any other industry in the world. And that's why it's so great to work with them on these kind of problems. Like this is some of the minutiae I think we, we like sort of skate over sometimes when we're thinking about these technologies. So let's talk about the brake system on a car. It turns out that the torques applied by the brakes on the wheels don't, don't spin the car when you apply the brakes,. You don't have as much authority, but you still have brake power. Now, that's a mechanically like brilliant design.

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