S3 Ep 15 ZOOX co-founder/CTO Jesse Levinson: Reinventing Personal Transportation from the Ground Up
What's in this episode:
00:00:00 Jesse Levinson
00:01:08 sponsors: Index Ventures and Weights and Biases
00:02:04 Zoox mission
00:02:59 starting with city driving instead of the highway
00:08:06 where can the public see Zoox cars
00:09:18 what does the Zoox car look like
00:11:39 designing a car without a driver's seat and safety
00:16:43 why design your own car
00:24:38 braking distance
00:25:33 manufacturing plans
00:30:15 AI for self-driving
00:37:49 how to keep improving the safety
00:40:48 role of humans in robotaxi fleet
00:44:12 is there an emergency button in the vehicle
00:45:31 how did Amazon affect Zoox
00:51:54 Zoox and Amazon delivery
00:53:47 Stanford days, DARPA challenge, early trajectory
01:01:06 raising the first round
01:03:38 ways to relax
Links:
zoox.com/
computerhistory.org/profile/j...
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