Jun 25, 2020 -
This is the recording of Day 1 of our Autonomous Vehicles Summit, a one-of-a-kind virtual conference for autonomous vehicle industry leaders. In previous years, the summit has drawn participants from top companies including Waymo, Uber, GM/Cruise, Apple, Amazon, Tesla, Volkswagen, Daimler, Toyota, and SoftBank. It was a must-attend event for operators, investors, suppliers, and policymakers in the field.
The Autonomous Vehicles Summit featured a mix of fireside chats and topical panels hosted by The Information's Amir Efrati. This year, we ventured into more discussions around efficient capital allocation as companies recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.
This year’s event topics included:
- How the Covid-19 pandemic will change priorities, strategy, capital, and the trajectory of technical progress
- How to run a lean R&D operation and reduce cash burn
What metrics the industry should share publicly in order to demonstrate safety & software quality
- How developers are changing the way they use machine learning
- Urban centers, suburbs, or freeways? A debate on where to develop automated vehicles first
- Where automated truck and delivery robot prototypes are heading and what stands in their way
- What venture capitalists want to fund in and around the industry, both software and hardware/sensors
- Scaling automated driving software from one city to the next
