Anthony Levandowski Quotes


Surface streets are probably a hundred to a thousand times more complicated than highways.


Citations

Bilger, Burkhard. "Auto Correct." The New Yorker, Condé Nast, 18 Nov. 2013.

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Anthony Levandowski
Anthony Levandowski
  • Born: March 15, 1980
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Co-Founder Pronto

Anthony Levandowski is a French-American self-driving car engineer. He is known for advancing the field of autonomous vehicles and for pleading guilty to trade secret theft. In 2009, Levandowski co-founded Google's self-driving car program, now known as Waymo, and was a technical lead until 2016. In 2016, he co-founded and sold Otto, an autonomous trucking company, to Uber Technologies. In 2018, he co-founded the autonomous trucking company Pronto; the first self-driving technology company to complete a cross-country drive in an autonomous vehicle in October 2018. At the 2019 AV Summit hosted by The Information, Levandowski remarked that a fundamental breakthrough in artificial intelligence is needed to move autonomous vehicle technology forward.