The Four Year Inovation Podcast from ARK Invest:
While there are debates about whether the deployment of fully autonomous vehicles will happen in one or several years, everyone agrees that the coming moment is very close. In this podcast, they chat with Oliver Cameron, co-founder and CEO of Voyage, a self-driving car company focused on bringing their technology to market as soon as possible, serving those who need it the most.
At this point, Voyage is on the very cusp of providing fully autonomously driven cars. Oliver gives an idea of their go-to-market strategy that involves catering to senior citizens in retirement communities before talking about the role that testing in these environments has played in the progression of their technology as well as the roll-out of their products. He also describes what a market-ready car needs to be able to do, and the significance of the difference between one car that works all the time and another that doesn’t. They discuss the tech stack that is being employed in Voyage cars next, why the team chose Chrysler’s Pacifica as their model of choice, and what their cars are currently capable of doing.
Oliver sketches out the computational procedure a self-driving car performs while on the road and gives some idea of how few milliseconds the process should take. Oliver also shares his thoughts about the industry during COVID-19, what widely publicized crashes mean for regulations, and what startups should expect to raise to pay for the costly tech these cars use!
