Srikanth Thirumalai

Srikanth Thirumalai is Vice President of Onboard Software at Waymo, where he leads the software stack for the Waymo Driver, including machine-learning systems for perception, behavior prediction, and motion planning. He previously held senior leadership roles at Amazon in search, Alexa Shopping, and personalization, and earlier worked on large-scale routing algorithms at Akamai Technologies.

Autonomous Driving Race Turns on Architecture, Cost, and Deployment

Bloomberg’s Tom Mackenzie frames the autonomous-driving race as a contest between systems that work now and systems designed to scale later. In Bloomberg Tech: Europe, he contrasts Waymo’s mapped, sensor-heavy safety stack with Wayve’s end-to-end AI model, while executives from BYD, Einride and Vay argue for other routes through vertical integration, autonomous freight and remote driving. The central question is not only which technology can drive, but which architecture and business model can win regulatory, customer and fleet trust at scale.

Bloomberg TechnologyMay 8, 202613 min read