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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. "

Karl Iagnemma

People

Day

" 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. "

Karl Iagnemma

Character

Interesting

" There's so much rich interaction with drivers that we take for granted. It seems like a mundane thing, but it turns out to be a really big deal. "

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

Karl Iagnemma

Track

People

" 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? "

Karl Iagnemma

Question

People

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The thing about stories is that they almost always find their way onto the page, even if it takes a while. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Uniformity is the friend of scalability. "

Karl Iagnemma

Friend

Uniformity

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

Karl Iagnemma

Exist

World

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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