John Zimmer Quotes

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

Uber's issue, I think the biggest one is driverless cars. That could be a complete reset to the business.

When we try to make a car that drives itself, we believe - whether we're right or not - we believe that there would be strong net positive benefit to the world if cars could drive themselves safer than people could.

I think that's where the world is going. People will not own cars; they'll have a service that takes them where they want to go, when they want to go there. And that's what Uber is.

Restrictions on mobility will be removed as cars become driverless. We'll be chauffeured, basically.

Driverless cars are coming to your street - the only question is, 'When?'

I suck as a driver. I believe all cars should be piloted and driven by machines.

We are building towards the future where people need not own their own cars.

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?

Driverless cars are a great thing.

I think any carmaker that had a brain and was looking very long-term would think about 'Personalised Transport Solutions' - which may not be a car.

Our highways and our roads are underutilized because of the allowances we have to make for human drivers.

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

We're going to look back and wonder why we had to micro-control our cars.

I like the word 'autopilot' more than I like the word 'self-driving.' 'Self-driving' sounds like it's going to do something you don't want it to do. 'Autopilot' is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.

If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.

Self-driving cars will enable car-sharing even in spread-out suburbs. A car will come to you just when you need it. And when you are done with it, the car will just drive away, so you won't even have to look for parking.

We humans usually feel that we are the best at everything we do, that we can safely drive ourselves. But tens of thousands of people die every year. We need to be open to having technology assist us, to find ways in which technology makes us safer.

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the DMV and look around, you're like, 'Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.'

I don't want to be a driving machine on my daily commute; I want to be driven by a machine.

Eventually, all cars are going to be autonomous.

I'm a firm believer that autonomous driving is coming.

I probably have a very controversial view on autonomous driving versus anybody else in the auto industry. I don't believe that it makes any sense for an automaker to develop autonomous driving.

We want to get to the point that using Uber is cheaper than owning a car.

There will be a huge, huge positive impact for society when driverless cars become a thing.