Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott

Chris Urmson: Aurora CEO - Autonomous Driving

Jan 30, 2020
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
The Future of Self-Driving Cars
02:20 • 3min
3
How Did You Become Interested in Computer Science?
05:47 • 2min
4
How Did You Know You Wanted to Go to Carnegie Mellon?
07:25 • 2min
5
What Was the Experience Like as a Grasp Student at Carnegie Mellon?
09:03 • 2min
6
The First Useful Robot That You Worked On?
11:01 • 2min
7
Robotics - What Is Motion Planning and Perception?
12:48 • 2min
8
How to Make a Hyperim Robot Work?
15:16 • 4min
9
The DARPA Grand Challenge
18:50 • 4min
10
Did You Think You'd Be a Computer Science Professor?
22:33 • 2min
11
Is There a Future for Self Driving Cars?
24:57 • 3min
12
Silicon Valley Engineers Are Risk Takers
27:50 • 2min
13
You Get the Best Out of Yourself When You're Passionate About It
29:29 • 3min
14
Getting to 100,000 Miles on Public Roads
32:06 • 3min
15
How Does Street View Drive Into a Product?
34:58 • 2min
16
Aurora: What Is It All About?
37:27 • 2min
17
Build a Driver, a Platform for the Transportation Logistics Community
39:17 • 2min
18
The Future of Autonomous Vehicles
40:54 • 2min
19
Adaptive Cruise Control and Electronic Stability Control - What's the Problem?
43:07 • 3min
20
Redundancy Is One of the Benefits of Self-Driving Vehicles
45:45 • 2min
21
How Do You Think About Interpretability of Machine Learning Models?
47:26 • 3min
22
Automated Vehicles
50:52 • 3min
23
Are You Using LiDAR?
53:46 • 4min
24
A New Way to Measure the Speed of a Vehicle or a Truck
57:45 • 2min
25
Are You Really Excited About the Future of Autonomous Vehicles?
59:25 • 2min
26
What's the Most Interesting Thing About Your Free Time?
01:00:59 • 2min
27
Rock Climbing - I Love It All
01:02:54 • 3min
28
Is There a Platform Approach to Autonomous Driving?
01:05:38 • 3min
29
Is There a Disruption of Platform Companies?
01:08:17 • 3min