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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Karl Iagnemma

Rich

Take For Granted

Interaction

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

" 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. "

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

Karl Iagnemma

Question

People

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Karl Iagnemma

Track

People

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Karl Iagnemma

Exist

World

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

Karl Iagnemma

Detroit

DNA

" 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 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "