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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" Uniformity is the friend of scalability. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "