Meet the Woman Making Uber's Self-Driving Cars Smarter, Cheaper
Meet the Woman Making Uber's Self-Driving Cars Smarter, Cheaper
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
November 16, 20176m 53s
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Show Notes
Next month in San Francisco, Uber will stand trial in federal court for allegedly cheating in the race to commercialize self-driving cars. Google parent Alphabet accuses Uber of stealing designs for sensors called lidars that give a vehicle a 3-D view of its surroundings, an “unjust enrichment” it says will take $1.8 billion to heal. Meanwhile in Toronto, Uber has a growing artificial-intelligence lab led by a woman who’s spent years trying to make lidar technology less important.
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