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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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" Surveys show that while many people are open to the idea of an autonomous vehicle driving them to work, far fewer are willing to let one drive their child to soccer practice. "

" The fundamental problem here is that humans and automation approach the driving task differently. "

" It's important for automated cars to be able to drive in a human-like fashion - and that does mean adapting to the driving patterns around you. "

" 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? "

" I grew up in Michigan, in the Detroit area, so cars are sort of in my DNA. "

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" All the technology going into self-driving cars is robotic technology. It's not automotive. That explains why some of the traditional automotive players didn't develop this technology. "

" My stories often begin with a situation or character rather than an insight about the human condition. It's always been difficult for me to write from an abstract idea, no matter how interesting or compelling I feel the idea might be. "

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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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" We hope to get to the place where there are thousands of Peugeot cars on the road running nuTonomy software. "

" The AV ecosystem is constantly evolving, and no single winner will be crowned. "

" In the automotive domain, generally speaking, when you look at consortium models, the groups that have leading technology are less incentivized to contribute to the consortia. "

" Writing, for me at least, takes a lot of concentrated work and effort. It takes dedication and the willingness to do the work even when that feeling of inspiration isn't there at all. "

" 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. "

" To the extent that trolley problem scenarios exist in the real world, AVs will make them rarer, not more frequent. "

Karl Iagnemma

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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. "

" Building cars is highly specialized, it's hard, and it's capital intensive. "

" 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. "

" When I first started writing, I didn't write about scientists at all. I think I wanted a break from that part of my world. "

" Everything that's transported over ground, whether it's people or parcels, will be impacted by autonomous vehicle technology. "

" It's a cultural question. Will people want to share cars? "

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" Conflating thought experiments with reality could slow the deployment of AVs that are reliably safer than human drivers. "

" You put a car on the road which may be driving by the letter of the law, but compared to the surrounding road users, it's acting very conservatively. This can lead to situations where the autonomous car is a bit of a fish out of water. "

" 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. "

" Cities like New Delhi for example, where traffic is dense and it's a more fluid driving environment, that's hard for self-driving technology to deal with. "

" I love driving through Western Massachusetts, out through the Berkshires, when the road is empty and it's a nice day. I don't like driving home on Memorial Drive at 5:45 or 6:45 at night when it's crowded and stressful. I think that's true of most people, and the goal of automated driving is to take the stressful part of driving out of the task. "

" 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. "

" I usually have a general idea of where the story is going, but I try to avoid planning in too much detail. The best endings are those that emerge only after I've thought long and hard about the various ways the story might end. Then I choose the ending that seems surprising yet somehow inevitable. "

" 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. "

" 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. "