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Learning to Engineer an Autonomous Car
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In the early days of autonomous car development, the Waymo team faced fundamental philosophical problems of driving. While contemporary challenges involve how to scale and create a safe product, the team learned valuable lessons in evaluating metrics and achieving autonomous driving at scale.

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In the early days of Waymo, the team faced the philosophical problem of what driving is as an autonomous vehicle.
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In the early days of Waymo, the team faced the philosophical problem of what driving is as an autonomous vehicle. The challenge was more about understanding the problem than engineering a product, leading to valuable lessons learned during the 16-month process.

Chapter
Learning to Engineer an Autonomous Car
Episode
#147 – Dmitri Dolgov: Waymo and the Future of Self-Driving Cars
Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast