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

Karl Iagnemma

Categorized in : You Small Organization Welcome

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

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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.

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Uniformity is the friend of scalability.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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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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.

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

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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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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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The AV ecosystem is constantly evolving, and no single winner will be crowned.

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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.

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