Raquel Urtasun

Upgraded testing may be key to advancing self-driving evolution

FreightWaves' Tony Mulvey and Waabi founder Raquel Urtasun at FreightWaves’ second Autonomous and Electric Vehicles Summit

This fireside chat recap is from FreightWaves’ second Autonomous and Electric Vehicles Summit, which took place Wednesday.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Using AI to improve testing for self-driving

DETAILS: A discussion on how AI and simulation provide safer options to traditional testing.

SPEAKER: Raquel Urtasun, founder and CEO at Waabi, a company that is building a trainable self-driving system using AI.

BIO: Urtasun has 20 years of experience in AI, with the past decade spent building self-driving...

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Waabi founder: AI-based self-driving technology ‘will change the world as we know it’

As chief scientist for Uber ATG – the company’s self-driving vehicle division that was sold to Aurora in December 2020 – Raquel Urtasun played a firsthand role in developing the technology that powered the division’s vehicles.

With nearly two decades of machine learning and artificial intelligence experience, Urtasun has developed expertise in the space and is a leading voice in North America for the technologies. In her “spare time,” she is also a professor at the University of Toronto.

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