The World’s Safest Driver Isn’t Human. Can Waymo Stop Traffic Deaths? | Chinmay Jain, Dir. Product

40,000 people a year die from traffic accidents in the US. Our guest today is Chinmay Jain, Director of Product Management on Waymo's Driving Behavior team, who is working to make that number 90% smaller.

In this episode, Chinmay shares:

• How he thought through leaving YouTube at its peak to join a moonshot company that could have civilization-level impact
• Waymo’s actual AI eval process, using massive simulations based on millions of real-world driving miles to maximize edge cases, ultimately turning trust into their real product
• And the misleading, but common, metrics Chinmay and his team learned to spot that could have seriously derailed Waymo’s progress

Links

Chinmay's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chinmayjain/
Waymo: https://waymo.com/

Chapters

00:00 Introduction
01:40 Chinmay’s decision to leave YouTube for Waymo
04:12 How does Waymo test its AI in the physical world?
06:09 Waymo’s layered evaluation system
09:53 Simulations and ML gains at Waymo
16:48 Waymo’s metrics for safety
21:33 What driving choices make training AI drivers the hardest?
24:00 Conclusion

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