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Dave Ferguson

CEO & Co-Founder, Nuro

Search every verified Dave Ferguson interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Dave Ferguson, co-founder and co-CEO of Nuro, discussed the company's shift from building autonomous delivery vehicles to developing a general-purpose self-driving system for robotaxis, logistics, and personal vehicles. In an October 2026 interview with Axios, he said Nuro plans to transition its Lucid Gravity test fleet in the San Francisco Bay Area to fully driverless operation by the end of the year. He attributed the pivot from Nuro's original vertically integrated delivery model to the capital-intensive nature of manufacturing and operating its own vehicles, noting that raising billions of dollars became less feasible after 2022. Ferguson also described the company's partnership with Uber and Lucid, saying Nuro chose Lucid as its vehicle partner after extensive discussions with multiple OEMs and that Lucid engineers work on-site at Nuro daily. In a September 2026 podcast appearance, Ferguson reflected on the autonomous vehicle industry's progress, saying it has lagged behind earlier expectations but that the technology is now "very real," citing Waymo's work as an example. He expressed optimism about integrating self-driving systems into personally owned vehicles, calling it "very doable from a cost perspective" and describing it as the future of personal car ownership. Ferguson also discussed Nuro's co-CEO structure and the company's hardware approach, noting that Nuro designs sensor configurations and compute systems but partners with manufacturers for production.

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“We have seen the fairly classic hype cycle curve, right? We sort of went through the trough of disillusionment, but at the other end of that trough typically is when things actually start working and people there's less hype, but it's actually real. Look, I think that we've seen a couple companies do a pretty tremendous job here. Waymo, I think, has done a tremendous job. Like, this tech is very very real. I think it”

“We recognized that for us to pursue that model, that go to market, we needed to raise quite a lot of capital. Because similar to sort of Waymo today, we were manufacturing our own vehicles. We were owning them. We were operating them. We were providing an entire service. In 2021, raising billions of dollars to support that vision was very doable. In 2022, things changed a little bit. And so we sort of faced this junc”

“We're now at the point where integrating this into a personally owned vehicle we believe is very, very doable from a cost perspective. And that is a very different situation from where we were even just a couple years ago. And frankly, that to us is extremely exciting because that is, we believe, very much the future of personal car ownership, is that you and I and everyone else are going to have L4 capable vehicles ”

“The cost is going to come down dramatically and the availability and access is going to go up and we're going to be at a place where we can trust mobility the same way that you would trust turning on the tap. And that's going to be a pretty phenomenal shift for us as a society. There's also going to be other implications, right? We're not going to need as many parking spots. So, a lot of the the visions that we've ha”

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