What does it actually take to make self-driving work in the real world?
Dmitri Dolgov, co-CEO of Waymo, joins South Park Commons Partners Aditya Agarwal and Ruchi Sanghvi to break down the company’s 17-year journey from early experiments to fully autonomous vehicles on public roads.
They get into how Waymo’s self-driving system works, why simulation and evaluation are so critical, and why the hardest part isn’t getting a car to drive, but making it safe and reliable enough to operate at scale.
Dmitri also explains why Waymo’s real advantage goes far beyond the model itself, and what it takes to keep improving a system where the margin for error is incredibly small.
Seventeen years ago, self-driving was still an open question.
Do you say hello to your Waymo?
How do you know a self-driving system is actually getting better, and not just getting better at exploiting loopholes?
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