Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Work
Categories: VC, Startup, Design
Summary
Waymo’s first autonomous demo took eighteen months. The product took fifteen years. Today, the Waymo Driver runs 500,000 trips a week — four million fully autonomous miles across fifteen cities, with
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Transcript Excerpt
Good afternoon everyone. It's great to be here. Uh we talk a lot about AI that lives on your screen uh lives in the digital world. And today I'd like to talk to you about a different kind of AI that we've been building at Whimo. AI that lives in the real physical world. How many of you by the way have been in a Whimo? Just raise your arms. Wow. Okay, that is impressive. Especially I understand many of you are out of town. Uh the folks who are visiting and have not had a chance to check out Whimo, I hope while you're here in the Bay Area, give it a try. Uh so this being a startup school, I structured this presentation as a sequence of lessons, seven lessons that we've learned over the years at Whimo around what it takes to build and safely ship today's most mature application of AI in the p…