Stanford Seminar: Self-Driving Cars for Everyone

Tim Kentley-Klay & Jesse Levinson
Zoox

Tim Kentley-Klay and Jesse Levinson, co-founders of autonomous-vehicle startup Zoox, detail a not-too-distant future when we’ll get into their cars and do nothing other than say where we need to go. In conversation with Stanford Professor of the Practice Tina Seelig, the two entrepreneurs explain how self-driving cars work and how their fleet of electric vehicles could make owning a ride obsolete.

Tim Kentley-Klay and Jesse Levinson are co-founders of Zoox, a robotics company developing fully autonomous vehicles and the supporting ecosystem required to bring the technology to market. Prior to Zoox, where he serves as CEO, Kentley-Klay founded three successful international design and technology driven companies: XYZ Studios, Crayon and Wheelbarrow. He is an accomplished businessman, entrepreneur, designer, animator and filmmaker.

Levinson, CTO of Zoox, graduated from Princeton University and completed a computer science Ph.D. and postdoc at Stanford. There, he developed algorithms for Stanford’s winning entry in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, and went on to lead the self-driving car team’s research efforts. Levinson also co-created a popular mobile photography app, Pro HDR, that has been purchased by more than a million people.