Waymo: The future of autonomous driving with Vincent Vanhoucke

Waymo Distinguished Engineer Vincent Vanhoucke discusses the core challenges of autonomous driving, explaining how Waymo fuses data from cameras, LiDAR, and radar to build a robust perception system. He delves into the "closed-loop" problem, the critical role of generative AI and simulation in training and validation, and how modern multimodal models are used in a teacher-student framework to distill vast world knowledge into the vehicle's onboard system, aiming for a safety standard that surpasses human performance.