{"id":3939,"date":"2019-07-22T10:17:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T14:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexfridman.com\/?p=3939"},"modified":"2019-07-22T10:17:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T14:17:34","slug":"chris-urmson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lexfridman.com\/chris-urmson\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Urmson: Self-Driving Cars at Aurora, Google, CMU, and DARPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1828\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3939-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/takeituneasy\/content.blubrry.com\/takeituneasy\/mit_ai_chris_urmson.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/takeituneasy\/content.blubrry.com\/takeituneasy\/mit_ai_chris_urmson.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/takeituneasy\/content.blubrry.com\/takeituneasy\/mit_ai_chris_urmson.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/takeituneasy\/content.blubrry.com\/takeituneasy\/mit_ai_chris_urmson.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/lexfridman.com\/?powerpress_pinw=3939-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/takeituneasy\/content.blubrry.com\/takeituneasy\/mit_ai_chris_urmson.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"mit_ai_chris_urmson.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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&#8217;s former autonomy and perception lead. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast.<\/span>&nbsp;If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href=\"https:\/\/lexfridman.com\/ai\">https:\/\/lexfridman.com\/ai<\/a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lexfridman\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lexfridman\/\">LinkedIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lexfridman\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@lexfridman\">Medium<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/lexfridman\">YouTube<\/a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. 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