Self-driving has been \u201calmost here\u201d for over a decade. But somewhere between DARPA\u00a0challenges\u00a0and a handful of driverless trucks hauling freight between Dallas and Houston, Aurora\u00a0co-founder and\u00a0CEO\u00a0Chris Urmson\u2019s story\u00a0changed.\u00a0The self-driving truck\u00a0company\u00a0started commercial driverless operations last April and is now scaling from a handful of trucks to hundreds this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On this episode of TechCrunch\u2019s\u00a0Equity\u00a0podcast,\u00a0we\u2019re\u00a0bringing you a conversation Rebecca Bellan had with Urmson\u00a0at the\u00a0HumanX\u00a0conference in San Francisco. The pair dug into the long road from lab to highway and how physical AI differs from the LLM boom everyone else is chasing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Listen to the full episode to hear about:\u00a0<\/p>\n
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- Why long-haul trucking\u00a0may crack the autonomy business\u00a0case\u00a0before robotaxis ever do\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- What \u201cverifiable AI\u201d means and why Urmson thinks end-to-end systems are a liability when lives are on the line\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- The surprisingly common-sense solution to the driverless truck safety triangle problem\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- What Aurora\u2019s roadmap looks like beyond trucking, and which companies in the autonomy space have Urmson genuinely excited\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/aurora-chris-urmson.jpeg?resize=1200,800″] Listen onApple PodcastsListen onSpotify Self-driving has been \u201calmost here\u201d for over a decade. But somewhere between DARPA\u00a0challenges\u00a0and a handful of driverless trucks hauling freight between Dallas and Houston, Aurora\u00a0co-founder and\u00a0CEO\u00a0Chris Urmson\u2019s story\u00a0changed.\u00a0The self-driving truck\u00a0company\u00a0started commercial driverless operations last April and is now scaling from a handful of trucks to hundreds this year.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,62],"class_list":["post-1924138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-techcrunch-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1924138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1924138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1924138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1924138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- What Aurora\u2019s roadmap looks like beyond trucking, and which companies in the autonomy space have Urmson genuinely excited\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- The surprisingly common-sense solution to the driverless truck safety triangle problem\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- What \u201cverifiable AI\u201d means and why Urmson thinks end-to-end systems are a liability when lives are on the line\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n