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

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

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

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

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" From a technology and economic perspective, it's vastly more likely that autonomy will be used for mobility services. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "