Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov on the nearly 20-year road from making self-driving work to making it safe
adityaag · x · 2026-10-09
SPC hosted Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov for a fully autonomous interview recorded inside a Waymo. Dolgov, a Stanford DARPA team member and founding engineer of Google's self-driving project, reflects on why autonomous driving took nearly 20 years instead of the promised 5, why the 2009 milestones focused on learning rather than shipping, and how enormous the gap is between making a car drive itself and making it safe enough for the real world. The full conversation covers fleet coordination and more.
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