Jacob Goldstein
Jacob Goldstein spent more than a decade as co-host of the Planet Money podcast. He's also the author of the book Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing, which the New…
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Chris Urmson is the co-founder and CEO of Aurora, a company trying to bring autonomous driving to commercial trucking.
Chris led a team at the 2004 DARPA challenge that launched the autonomous vehicle industry. Then he held a senior role at Google’s self-driving car project, which later became Waymo.
On the show today, he talks about the long arc of autonomous driving, why he left Google, and the future of autonomous trucking.
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