Getting Waymo into autonomous driving

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, 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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