Zoox: 1-Hour Fully Autonomous Drive in Las Vegas with Commentary

Marc Wimmershoff, our Sr. Director of Planning & Control, and Ekaterina Taralova, Sr. Software Engineer on our Computer Vision team, talk through a 1-hour drive in downtown Las Vegas, sharing insights into how our self-driving technology functions. This drive is 100% autonomous, with full perception output. You'll see many complicated scenarios synonymous with dense urban environments, such as airport pickup and drop-off zones, busy 6-lane traffic, hotel pickup zones, thousands of pedestrians, construction zones, plus much more. One AV stack - scalable for multiple cities and speeds. https://zoox.com/ 0:00 Introduction 0:48 Start of Drive at Hotel Pickup Zone No. 1 2:00 Nudging Around Construction Cones 2:24 Nudging Around Indecisive Vehicle in Lane 2:47 Yielding to Pedestrians at Crossing 3:07 Yielding to Birds on Road 3:14 Hotel Pickup Zone No. 2 4:22 Stopping at Stop Sign 4:52 Explanation of Cost-Tuning Associated with Lane Changes 6:07 Detecting Occluded Vehicles in our Path 6:42 Merging into High Speed, Multi-Lane Traffic 8:37 Explanation of Autonomously Adhering to Speed Limits 9:45 Navigating into the Airport 10:39 Overview of Zoox’s Calibration, Localization and Mapping System 11:27 Navigating Through Airport Pickup and Drop-Off Zone 12:47 Overview of Zoox’s Planning and Control System 14:02 Lane Change in Multi-Lane Traffic 14:56 Explanation of Cost-Tuning Associated with Lane Changes 15:33 Lane Change in Dense, Multi-Lane Traffic 15:59 Nudging Around Construction Cones 16:53 Traffic Light Detection 17:45 Yielding to Pedestrian at Crossing 18:09 Hotel Pickup Zone No. 3 20:09 Navigating Occluded Scenarios 22:00 Yielding to Vehicle Cutting In Front 22:28 Navigating Previously Unmapped Construction Zone 23:51 Performing U-Turn 25:57 Differences Between Autonomously Driving in Las Vegas vs. San Francisco 28:35 Explanation of How To Autonomously Maintain Distance 30:52 Returning to Hotel Pickup Zone No. 1 31:08 End of Drive