Today we’re joined by Drago Anguelov, Distinguished Scientist and Head of Research at Waymo. In our conversation, we explore the state of the autonomous vehicles space broadly and at Waymo, including how AV has improved in the last few years, their focus on level 4 driving, and Drago’s thoughts on the direction of the industry going forward. Drago breaks down their core ML use cases, Perception, Prediction, Planning, and Simulation, and how their work has lead to a fully autonomous vehicle being deployed in Phoenix. We also discuss the socioeconomic and environmental impact of self-driving cars, a few research papers submitted to NeurIPS 2020, and if the sophistication of AV systems will lend themselves to the development of tomorrow’s enterprise machine learning systems. The complete show notes for this episode can be found at https://twimlai.com/go/454. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/twimlapplepodcast Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/twimlspotify Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly90d2ltbGFpLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz RSS: https://twimlai.libsyn.com/rss Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLILZm3MRkvH83C46bZ4rPmB-jKWBltWkP Subscribe to our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7kjWIK1H8tfmFlzZO-wHMw?sub_confirmation=1 Podcast website: https://twimlai.com Sign up for our newsletter: https://twimlai.com/newsletter Check out our blog: https://twimlai.com/blog Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/twimlai Follow us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/twimlai Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/twimlai