Getting Waymo into autonomous driving (Practical AI #103)

Waymo’s mission is to make it safe and easy for people and things to get where they’re going.
After describing the state of the industry, Drago Anguelov - Principal Scientist and Head of Research at Waymo - takes us on a deep dive into the world of AI-powered autonomous driving. Starting with Waymo’s approach to autonomous driving, Drago then delights Daniel and Chris with a tour of the algorithmic tools in the autonomy toolbox.

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Featuring:

• Drago Anguelov – LinkedIn
• Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Dragomir Anguelov - Google Scholar
• Drago Anguelov – Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving at Scale
• Waymo
• Waymo - Twitter
• Waymo - LinkedIn

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