AGIRecord · urmson-2015
Chris Urmson
Director, Google Self-Driving Car Project
Why they matterLed Google's self-driving programme (later Waymo); co-founder of Aurora
- Status
- Closed
- Prediction made
- 2015
- Predicted arrival
- 2020
- Interval
- 5 yrs
“My oldest son is 11, and he'll be 16 in four and a half years… my team is committed to making sure that doesn't happen — that he doesn't need a driver's licence.”
Context
A concrete, personally-dated timeline from the head of the leading self-driving programme.
Why it is considered incorrect
By 2020 no consumer self-driving service let a teenager forgo a driver's licence; Waymo's driverless rides remained a limited service in parts of Phoenix.