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010: Toyota’s Breakthrough with Blockchain and Autonomous Cars with Chris Ballinger

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Chris Ballinger is the CFO and Head of Mobility Services at Toyota. Specifically, within the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) which leads Toyota’s efforts around autonomous vehicle technology – self-driving cars.   Chris previously worked at the White House and was a Senior Vice President at Bank of America.   He is also a formally trained monetary economist (which made for quite an interesting conversation).   In this episode, we discuss:   How Toyota plans on using Blockchain, AI, and Machine Learning to make its vision of fully autonomous vehicles, a reality The different functional areas where Blockchain would play a pivotal role How Nick Szabo’s 1998 paper on smart contracts, was the perfect primer for Chris