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" After I joined Google and stopped working on robots - I'd built some self-driving tractors on farms in the meantime - I was always tinkering and playing with robots at home and just as a hobby. "
Google
Robots
Home
" Google was the right place to pioneer robot cars. "
Place
Google
Right
" Humans are in charge of the planet because we are smarter than other animals and are able to build tools and apply rules. In the future, if something is much, much smarter, there's going to be a transition as to who is actually in charge. "
Future
Tools
Rules
" If you ask people whether a computer can be smarter than a human, 99.9 percent will say that's science fiction. Actually, it's inevitable. It's guaranteed to happen. "
Inevitable
Science
Say
" If you could make something one percent smarter than a human, your artificial attorney or accountant would be better than all the attorneys or accountants out there. You would be the richest person in the world. People are chasing that. "
You
World
People
" I like incremental improvements or at least seeing where you're going to go and really being able to understand what's feasible at the time. "
Go
You
Understand
" I'm excited about bringing robots into the market, about having the most effect in the world. "
Robots
Excited
Market
" In 2003, my mom actually gave me a call, which is funny because she works at the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, and let me know that there's a cool competition with robots across the desert. And I thought this was definitely something I wanted to be a part of. This was the first DARPA Grand Challenge. "
Cool
Mom
Funny
" In 2008, no one else would ever have believed me that we were going to make a car actually drive everywhere, all the time. "
Going
Car
Drive
" I see Grand Challenge not as the end of the robotics adventure we're on: it's almost like the beginning. "
Adventure
Challenge
End
" I think, like all big things, you don't know they're going to be a big thing when you start. You just kind of, like, play because it's fun, and it's interesting, and then it turns out to be way more important than you expected. "
Start
Fun
Interesting
" Sometimes I drive, and sometimes I'm driven. "
Driven
Drive
Sometimes
" Surface streets are probably a hundred to a thousand times more complicated than highways. "
Streets
More
Complicated
" There are many ways people think of God, and thousands of flavors of Christianity, Judaism, Islam... but they're always looking at something that's not measurable or you can't really see or control. "
People
Think
God
" There was a pizza delivery robot from 2008, where I built a Prius to deliver pizza from downtown SF to Treasure Island. "
Robot
Delivery
Pizza
" When you are Uber, what we care about is the customer experience of getting somebody safely, cheaply, efficiently and reliably from where they are to where they want to go. "
Care
You
Want
" You've got to push things and get bumps and bruises along the way. "
Along
Push
You
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