Inside Zipline's Autonomous System: 140M Miles, Zero Incidents
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The largest commercial autonomous system on earth isn't a robotaxi fleet — it's Zipline, which has flown 140 million autonomous miles with zero safety incidents. Co-founder Keller Rinaudo Cliffton and
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I remember being in Rwanda early days and going out and meeting with some of the doctors and lab techs that we were serving and asking for them like you know how's it going what what do you think what's your feedback here I am kind of uh you know upand cominging you know learning engineer thinking they're going to say something about the drone or some of these things and the main piece of feedback that I received was people get sick 24/7 why are you guys only open 12 hours a day >> right >> especially when you're delivering life-saving blood >> yeah exactly and so that was a really key insight for me where it's like, man, we've found product market fit in a market where, yeah, our, you know, our product wasn't great yet, but it was solving a real need. Uh, and so having that that really be…
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