Waymo: The future of autonomous driving with Vincent Vanhoucke

How do you train an AI to drive safer than a human? Professor Hannah Fry sits down with Waymo Distinguished Engineer Vincent Vanhoucke to break down the complexities of autonomous driving—from the "closed loop" problem of real-world traffic to using generative AI for simulation. Plus, Hannah moves from theory to practice, taking a Waymo for a spin in California to experience it firsthand.

Timecodes
00:00 Intro
01:02 Ride around town
03:48 The driverless car problem
08:43 Sensors
13:00 3D model of the world
16:42 Closed loop problem
22:51 Multimodal models
29:31 Tokenizing
34:39 Human drivers
43:51 Safety
48:41 London and the future
52:44 Outro
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Thanks to everyone who made this possible, including but not limited to:

Presenter: Professor Hannah Fry
Series Producer: Dan Hardoon
Editor: Rami Tzabar
Commissioner & Producer: Emma Yousif
Music composition: Eleni Shaw
Audio engineer: Richard Courtice

Video Editor: Anthony Le
Audio Engineer: Perry Rogantin
Visual Identity and Design: Rob Ashley
Commissioned by Google DeepMind

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