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" Building cars is highly specialized, it's hard, and it's capital intensive. "
Karl Iagnemma
Building
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Hard
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" Even if we wanted to imbue an autonomous vehicle with an ethical engine, we don't have the technical capability today to do so. "
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" You have to force yourself to give up and to move onto something else. That's the way you grow as a writer, by trying new things and tackling new subjects. But it's difficult. There's part of you that doesn't want to give up because you realize that, in some way, you're surrendering. "
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" For better or worse, we have to bridge this divide between developing cars that drive by the book and cars that drive how you and I drive. "
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" Conflating thought experiments with reality could slow the deployment of AVs that are reliably safer than human drivers. "
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" When a driverless car looks out on the world, it's not able to distinguish the age of a pedestrian or the number of occupants in a car. "
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" We hope to get to the place where there are thousands of Peugeot cars on the road running nuTonomy software. "
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" Our first iteration of driverless cars kind of drove like trolleys on a track. This uncanny notion threw people off. "
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" I'm really not interested in writing about science at all. I mean, I try to get the information right, the details right. But fiction isn't good at conveying information: It's good at telling stories about people in interesting situations. "
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" It's challenging to drive in a way that's human-like. "
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" In Singapore, drivers generally obey the rules, but the attitude around pedestrians is actually quite different. It's culturally different. People drive safely, but it's not the same deference shown to pedestrians. "
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" The AV ecosystem is constantly evolving, and no single winner will be crowned. "
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" If you're a large organization, you may welcome a bit of regulation to keep the small guys out. "
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" I grew up in Michigan, in the Detroit area, so cars are sort of in my DNA. "
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" We want to develop a technology that's globally applicable, that's not customized for a specific city or a specific country. The only way to do that is to be able to test every day in a diversity of environments. "
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" Everybody likes driving through scenic, winding roads. It's hard to find people who like sitting in traffic in cities. "
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" If you develop a technology that only works in a single city, where it's kind of optimized for a specific city, that's not really that exciting. "
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" From a societal aspect, when you are impatient behind a driverless car and there's no one to listen to your beeping horn, what are people going to do? How are they going to take out their aggression? "
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" Even if trolley problems were a realistic concern for AVs, it is not clear what, if anything, regulators or companies developing AVs should do about them. The trolley problem is an intensely debated thought experiment precisely because there isn't a consensus on what should be done. "
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" Humans violate the rules in a safe and principled way, and the reality is that autonomous vehicles in the future may have to do the same thing if they don't want to be the source of bottlenecks. "
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" My parents encouraged me to be creative by being creative and interesting people themselves, and by making it clear how highly they valued creativity in others. "
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" Partnerships remain critical to nuTonomy's success, and our aim is to work with groups with whom we share strategic aims and core values. These are partners that are transparent, innovative, and are focused on putting autonomous fleets on the road. "
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" We are all vulnerable to the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of vivid, cognitively available risks rather than statistically likelier, but less salient, risks. "
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