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Urmson: We can't accept the status quo

Chris Urmson is the co-founder and CEO of Aurora, a self-driving-technology company. Before founding Aurora, Urmson helped build Google’s self-driving car program and was chief technology officer. Urmson also was previously a faculty member of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. (SAMUEL LAHOZ)
April 22, 2019 04:00 AM

This essay was adapted from a debate April 13 in New York on the motion “All Hail the Driverless Car” as part of the nonprofit debate series Intelligence Squared U.S., in partnership with the Manhattan Institute’s Adam Smith Society. The entire debate will air soon on public radio and is available to hear now at intelligencesquaredus.org.

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