Chris Urmson: Self-Driving Cars at Aurora, Google, CMU, and DARPA

Chris Urmson was the CTO of the Google Self-Driving Car
team, a key engineer and leader behind the Carnegie Mellon
autonomous vehicle entries in the DARPA grand challenges and the
winner of the DARPA urban challenge. Today he is the CEO of
Aurora Innovation, an autonomous vehicle software company he
started with Sterling Anderson, who was the former director of
Tesla Autopilot, and Drew Bagnell, Uber’s former autonomy and
perception lead. This conversation is part of the Artificial
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