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. Karl Iagnemma Read Quote
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. Karl Iagnemma Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Karl Iagnemma Read Quote
We hope to get to the place where there are thousands of Peugeot cars on the road running nuTonomy software. Karl Iagnemma Read Quote
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. Karl Iagnemma Read Quote
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. Karl Iagnemma Read Quote
Even if we wanted to imbue an autonomous vehicle with an ethical engine, we don’t have the technical capability today to do so. Karl Iagnemma Read Quote
Everybody likes driving through scenic, winding roads. It’s hard to find people who like sitting in traffic in cities. Karl Iagnemma Read Quote
