Guest
Chris Urmson
Self-Driving Car Pioneer
Chris Urmson appears on the Lex Fridman Podcast across artificial intelligence, self-driving, programming. Lex describes Chris Urmson as self-driving car pioneer.
Appearance timeline
Follow this guest across the archive and see when each conversation happened.
2019
1 appearance
Lex Fridman Podcast / July 22, 2019 / Episode #0
Chris Urmson: Self-Driving Cars at Aurora, Google, CMU, and DARPA
Chris Urmson was the CTO of the Google Self-Driving Car team, a key engineer and leader behind the Carnegie Mellon autonomous vehicle entries in the DARPA grand challenges and the winner of the DARPA urban challenge. Today he is the CEO of Aurora Innovation, an autonomous vehicle software company he started with Sterling Anderson, who was the former director of Tesla Autopilot, and Drew Bagnell, Uber's former autonomy and perception lead. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook , Medium , or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on iTunes or support it on Patreon .
Start here
Full episode
Chris Urmson was the CTO of the Google Self-Driving Car team, a key engineer and leader behind the Carnegie Mellon autonomous vehicle entries in the DARPA grand challenges and the winner of the DARPA urban challenge. Today he is the CEO of Aurora Innovation, an autonomous vehicle software company he started with Sterling Anderson, who was the former director of Tesla Autopilot, and Drew Bagnell, Uber's former autonomy and perception lead. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook , Medium , or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on iTunes or support it on Patreon .
Where to start
The clearest entry points into this guest's appearances.
Profile
A short introduction based on public episode notes and linked profiles.
Chris Urmson
Self-Driving Car Pioneer
Chris Urmson appears on the Lex Fridman Podcast across artificial intelligence, self-driving, programming. Lex describes Chris Urmson as self-driving car pioneer.
Appearances
1
Timeline span
July 22, 2019 to July 22, 2019
Social handles
Public profiles mentioned in the episode notes.
Public profiles are still being added.
Podcasts
See which podcast archives this guest appears in most often.
Common topics
Themes that show up most often across this guest's appearances.