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May 2017
58m 25s

Tim Kentley-Klay and Jesse Levinson (Zoo...

Stanford Ecorner
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Tim Kentley-Klay and Jesse Levinson, co-founders of autonomous-vehicle startup Zoox, detail a not-too-distant future when we’ll get into their cars and do nothing other than say where we need to go. In conversation with Stanford Professor of the Practice Tina Seelig, the two entrepreneurs explain how self-driving cars work and how their fleet of electric veh ... Show More
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