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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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" 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. "

" It's challenging to drive in a way that's human-like. "

" 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. "

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

" It's maybe an unrecognized fact of academia that what you spend a lot of your time doing is convincing people of your vision and raising funds to support your research activity. So in that sense, transitioning to a startup wasn't that big of a transition. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" It's funny how life works. You end up sometimes back where you started. "

" Singapore's not a very big country. They speak with one voice, and they have a clear idea of what their regulatory environment should look like. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Uniformity is the friend of scalability. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you contribute to an open-source or a shared solution, and there's a liability issue that arises from the use of that solution, how will this be tracked back to individual contributors? "

" Everybody likes driving through scenic, winding roads. It's hard to find people who like sitting in traffic in cities. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For self-driving cars in particular, there are lots of dimensions of this technology beyond just impact on labour. There is a massive potential improvement in public health. "

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

" Our first iteration of driverless cars kind of drove like trolleys on a track. This uncanny notion threw people off. "

" 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. "

" We are all vulnerable to the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of vivid, cognitively available risks rather than statistically likelier, but less salient, risks. "

" If you're a large organization, you may welcome a bit of regulation to keep the small guys out. "

" 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. "

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