Kodiak CTO Andy Wendel joined Grayson Brulte’s The Road To Autonomy podcast. They covered two big points – how Kodiak built its autonomy stack to cover diverse domains (highway and dirt roads and off-road environments) and also Kodiaks safety case.
The discussion about safety is particularly interesting. Companies tend to be pretty cagey when discussing their safety case. Andy is also a little circumspect, but I think he is more forthcoming than a lot of competitors I’ve seen. He touches on Kodiak’s probabilistic safety reasoning, the role of simulation vs. on-road miles in building a safety case, and he kind of nods toward some of the internal checklists we use when determining whether a truck is ready to go “driver-out.”
David Silver 