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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Everything that's transported over ground, whether it's people or parcels, will be impacted by autonomous vehicle technology. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" Uniformity is the friend of scalability. "

Karl Iagnemma

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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" 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? "

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

" 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. "