Fully autonomous vehicles (AV) may not have drivers behind the wheel, but people are still driving the industry itself.
When you see a Waymo or Zoox robotaxi on the streets of San Francisco, there’s a good chance a Leavey School of Business graduate or student had something to do with getting it there.
She interned at Waymo while she was a student and became a business systems analyst for Zoox shortly after the company was acquired by Amazon.
DeMarco Orella, engineering operations technical specialist at Waymo, handles yet another aspect of the business.
Agrawal says any AV company expanding to new cities must account for cultural differences, nuances of traffic laws and even the climate.