David Estrada (lawyer)

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David Estrada
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Born (1968-03-28) March 28, 1968 (age 55)
NationalityAmerican
Education University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A.)
University of California, Berkeley (J.D.)
Occupation Lawyer
Known forChief legal and policy officer at Nuro Inc.

David Estrada (born March 28, 1968) is a Silicon Valley lawyer and chief legal and policy officer at Nuro Inc., a Mountain View, California-based robotics and self-driving car startup. [1]

In the early days of the rideshare industry at Lyft in 2014, he built the government relations team and helped develop state laws for the industry during its battles with taxi interests. [2] At Google X he shaped the first state-level autonomous vehicle regulations in Nevada, [3] Florida, and California, [4] and he spoke about the benefits of self-driving cars at a Computer History Museum event called Reinventing Law in 2013. [5] When he joined Nuro in 2019 he was cited for asserting that autonomous vehicles used for goods delivery, like Nuro's, do not need steering wheels or seat belts. [6] [7]

Estrada worked with Sebastian Thrun to build the Kitty Hawk Corporation, a flying car company which launched a one-person VTOL aircraft called the Flyer. [8] He sits on the board of directors of Wisk, a joint venture of Kitty Hawk and Boeing. [9] [10] At the first e-scooter sharing company, Bird Rides Inc., Estrada helped to establish the business in Los Angeles, [11] [12] throughout the US, and globally. [13] [14]

Estrada was the second attorney at the online video startup YouTube, joining in 2006 before it was acquired by Google, and he worked with Apple to make YouTube the only non-Apple application included on the original launch of the iPhone. [15]

He is married to Gina Estrada and the couple have three children. [16]

Estrada is a 1993 graduate of the UC Berkeley School of Law, where we was an articles editor for the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, a judicial extern for Judge Charles A. Legge of the Northern District of California, and taught a class called Street Law [17] to empower high school students with legal tools. [18]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Lyft Hires Google X Legal Director David Estrada As Its VP Of Government Relations". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  3. ↑ "How an (Autonomous Driving) Bill Becomes Law". Stanford University .
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  5. ↑ "David Estrada - Why We Need Self Driving Cars Now". Vimeo. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  6. ↑ Stone B. Does Every Car Need a Steering Wheel and Seat Belts? A Tech Lawyer Says No. Bloomberg:Hyperdrive. November 6, 2019, 6:45 AM EST. Accessed 11/6/2019
  7. ↑ Canada Legal's tweet about David Estrada's opinion. November 6, 2019. Accessed 11/6/2019
  8. ↑ Faught A. Tomorrow Man: David Estrada ’93 fuels the tech revolution with hard work, keen insight, and a bit of clairvoyance. BerkeleyLaw. Accessed 11/06/2019
  9. ↑ Alcock, Charles. "Boeing and Kitty Hawk Launch eVTOL Joint Venture Wisk". Aviation International News. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  10. ↑ "About Us". Wisk. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  11. ↑ "#88: City Series: David Estrada of Bird". Autonocast. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  12. ↑ "L.A. approves rules for thousands of scooters, with a 15-mph speed limit and aid for low-income riders". Los Angeles Times. 2018-09-05. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  13. ↑ Stone B. The autonomous car’s chief lawyer. Bloomberg. November 6, 2019, 6:45 AM EST
  14. ↑ Clark K. Bird’s chief legal & policy officer is leaving the company. Tech Crunch. 8:35 pm EDT • October 14, 2019
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  16. ↑ "Tomorrow Man". Berkeley Law. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  17. ↑ "Street Law Class Empowers High School Students With Legal Tools". University of San Francisco. March 4, 2016.
  18. ↑ "Tomorrow Man". Berkeley Law. Retrieved 2019-12-16.
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