Anthony Levandowski Quotes


I think, like all big things, you don't know they're going to be a big thing when you start. You just kind of, like, play because it's fun, and it's interesting, and then it turns out to be way more important than you expected.


Citations

Levy, Steven. "The Man Who Built Google's First Self-Driving Car is Now a Trucker." Backchannel, 17 May 2016.

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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.