Waymo: The future of autonomous driving with Vincent Vanhoucke

How do you train an AI to drive safer than a human? Professor Hannah Fry sits down with Waymo Distinguished Engineer Vincent Vanhoucke to break down the complexities of autonomous driving—from the "closed loop" problem of real-world traffic to using generative AI for simulation. Plus, Hannah moves from theory to practice, taking a Waymo for a spin in California to experience it firsthand. Timecodes 00:00 Intro 01:02 Ride around town 03:48 The driverless car problem 08:43 Sensors 13:00 3D model of the world 16:42 Closed loop problem 22:51 Multimodal models 29:31 Tokenizing 34:39 Human drivers 43:51 Safety 48:41 London and the future 52:44 Outro ___ Thanks to everyone who made this possible, including but not limited to: Presenter: Professor Hannah Fry Series Producer: Dan Hardoon Editor: Rami Tzabar Commissioner & Producer: Emma Yousif Music composition: Eleni Shaw Audio engineer: Richard Courtice Video Editor: Anthony Le Audio Engineer: Perry Rogantin Visual Identity and Design: Rob Ashley Commissioned by Google DeepMind ____ Subscribe to our channel https://www.youtube.com/@googledeepmind Find us on X https://twitter.com/GoogleDeepMind Follow us on Instagram https://instagram.com/googledeepmind Add us on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/company/deepmind/