Featured Session: Self-Driving Cars: The Future is When? with Malcolm Gladwell & Chris Urmson

Mar 9, 2019

9:30am – 10:30am CT

Like it or not, self-driving vehicles are coming. Some say they’re already here. With ever-increasing speed, the technology for creating both autonomous private vehicles and public transportation is becoming a reality. But who do we become when we relinquish control to machines? How safe will these vehicles be? What will they look like? And who owns the data they generate? To mark the SXSW world premiere of his new documentary, Autonomy, Malcolm Gladwell (author and host of Revisionist History) joins Chris Urmson (CEO of Aurora Innovation) and NBC News Correspondent Jo Ling Kent for a conversation about where we’re heading and who we’ll be when we get there.



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Programming descriptions are generated by participants and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SXSW.

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Malcolm Gladwell

Revisionist History

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