A Q&A with Chris Urmson, whose firm wants to send autonomous trucks on Interstate 45 between Dallas and Houston.
Aurora has said its driving system is now “feature-complete.” Does that mean you’re close to putting trucks on the road without humans inside?
To many, the sight of an 80,000-pound semi with no human driver is pretty scary. How would you address those fears? When the truck is driving down the road, it needs to be able to operate safely with or without those remote support people. But there are things that the human mind looks at where it’s very easy to understand. Encoding all of those possible things in software is really hard. As we deploy the Aurora Driver, it’ll always operate safely, whether that person is there or not. But it can ask for help.
It’s important to recognize that trucks are involved in something like a half million accidents here today. So we expect to reduce that number. These trucks will be sharing the road with people, and people will do unexpected things. We’ll do everything we can to make sure these vehicles are safe. We’ll have a level of confidence in the way this thing’s going to behave that will be unprecedented.
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