Stantec GenerationAV Founder Corey Clothier

How AI Happens

In this episode, we learn about the common challenges companies face when it comes to developing and deploying their AV and how Stantec uses military and aviation best practices to remove human error and ensure safety and reliability in AV operations. Corey explains the importance of collecting edge cases and shares his take on why the autonomous mobility industry is so meaningful.

Key Points From This Episode:

• Introducing Autonomous Mobility Strategist and Stantec GenerationAV Founder Corey Clothier.
• Corey breaks down his typical week.
• Applications for autonomously mobile wheelchairs.
• Corey’s experience working in robotics for the Department of Defense.
• The state of autonomy back in 2009 and 2010.
• Corey’s definition of commercialization.
• Why there’s less forgiveness for downtime with autonomous vehicles than human-operated vehicles.
• How people’s attitudes around autonomy and robotics differ in different parts of the world.
• The sensationalism around autonomous vehicle “crashes.”
• Stantec’s approach to measuring and assessing the safety and risk of autonomous vehicles.
• Why it’s so crucial to collect edge cases and how solving for them is applied downstream.
• The common challenges companies face when it comes to deploying and developing their AV.
• How Stantec uses military and aviation best practices to remove human error in AV operations.
• The advantages of and opportunities behind AV.
• Advice for those hoping to forge an impactful career in autonomous vehicles.

Tweetables:

“For me, [commercialization] is a safe and reliable service that actually can perform the job that it's supposed to.” — @coreyclothier [0:07:04]

“Most of the autonomous vehicles that I've been working with, even since the beginning, most of them are pretty safe.” — @coreyclothier [0:08:01]

“When you start to talk to people from around the world, they absolutely have different attitudes related to autonomy and robotics.” — @coreyclothier [0:09:20]

“What's exciting though is about dRISK [is] it gives us a quantifiable risk measure, something that we can look at as a baseline and then something we can see as we make improvements and do mitigation strategies.” — @coreyclothier [0:17:18]

“The common challenges really are being able to handle all the edge cases in the operating environment that they're going to deploy.” — @coreyclothier [0:20:41]

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Corey Clothier on LinkedIn

Corey Clothier on Twitter

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