Chris Urmson
Chris Urmson is an engineer known for his work pioneering self-driving car technology.[1] He has previously worked with Alphabet on their self-driving car project and is CEO of the start-up company Aurora Innovations.[2]
Background
Urmson was an assistant professor and researcher at Carnegie Mellon University.[3] [4] The CMU team he was part of won the 2007 DARPA Urban Grand Challenge driverless car competition.[5] The challenge saw teams navigate a vehicle autonomously across a desert landscape and then a fabricated city.[6]
Career
Urmson served as CTO on X, Google's self-driving car team, joining in 2009 and taking over from Sebastian Thrun as project lead in 2013.[3] He was main engineer who built the code running Google’s autonomous software.[7] Urmson left the company in 2016.[4]
Urmson founded Aurora Innovation with Sterling Anderson, the former director of Tesla Autopilot and Drew Bagnell, Uber's former autonomy and perception lead.[2] Aurora is a startup dedicated to driverless car software, data and hardware, though not the cars themselves.[8] [7]
References
- ^ Mui, Chunka. "Chris Urmson Reflects On Challenges, No-Win Scenarios And Timing Of Driverless Cars". forbes.com. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
- ^ a b Muoio, Danielle. "Tesla's former Autopilot head is launching a self-driving-car company — and it could have a big advantage". businessinsider.com. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
- ^ a b Kelly, Heather. "Google loses lead self-driving car engineer Chris Urmson". money.cnn.com. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
- ^ a b Waters, Richard. "Chris Urmson quits Google driverless car project". ft.com. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
- ^ Aupperlee, Aaron. "How Autonomous Vehicles Could Give Car Designs an Upgrade". govtech.com. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
- ^ Urmson, Chris. "The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car: A New Chapter". medium.com. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
- ^ a b Swisher, Kara; Bhuiyan, Johana. "Google's former car guru Chris Urmson is working on his own self-driving company". recode.net. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
- ^ Edelstein, Stephen. "Mysterious Startup Aurora Innovation Granted Self-Driving-Car Test Permit in California". thedrive.com. Retrieved 30 August 2017.