An interview with self-driving visionary Larry Burns, co-author of “Autonomy”
Lawrence Burns is a former vice president of research, development and planning at General Motors, who has been an advisor to Waymo (formerly Google’s self-driving car project) since 2011. He and Christopher Shulgan co-authored “Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car and How it Will Reshape the World” to be released Aug. 28 by HarperCollins.