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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Singapore is likely to be the world's first market for self-driving cars. Commercial services around self-driving vehicles will likely be in Singapore before they are anywhere else in the world. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" There's a lot of knowledge in civil engineering about how soils will react when subjected to heavy loads. When you take lightweight vehicles and granular soils of varying composition, it's a very complex modeling process. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Even if we wanted to imbue an autonomous vehicle with an ethical engine, we don't have the technical capability today to do so. "

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

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