Dmitri Dolgov

Dmitri Dolgov, Chief Technology Officer, Waymo, USA

Waymo, formerly the Google self-driving car project, has a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around.

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We’ll talk to Waymo’s CTO about the state of AI, the company’s approach to developing, testing and validating its self-driving vehicle technology and what challenges remain for this Alphabet company and the rest of the AV industry.

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Dmitri Dolgov is the CTO of Waymo, an autonomous vehicle company.

Outline:

0:00 - Introduction
2:16 - Computer games
7:23 - Childhood
9:55 - Robotics
10:44 - Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
12:56 - DARPA Urban Challenge
23:16 - Waymo origin story
38:58 - Waymo self-driving hardware
47:31 - Connected cars
53:23 - Waymo fully driverless service in Phoenix
57:45 - Getting feedback from riders
1:05:58 - Creating a product that people love
1:11:49 - Do self-driving cars need to break the rules like humans do?
1:18:33 - Waymo Trucks
1:24:11 - Future of Waymo
1:37:23 - Role of lidar in autonomous driving
1:50:23 - Machine learning is essential for autonomous driving
1:54:25 - Pedestrians
2:01:02 - Trolley problem
2:05:30 - Book recommendations
2:16:56 - Meaning of life

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Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov joined host Alexandr Wang for a fireside chat at TransformX on our technical approach to building a fully autonomous driving technology system, scaling across different environments, and more.

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