Sebastian Thrun Quotes
I envision a future without traffic accidents or congestion. A future where everyone can use a car.
The mayor had resisted the rebuilding of a major downtown elevated highway when it was discovered that it was badly in need of repair. Typically, local officials accede to almost any pressure from AAA and the commercial interests wanting to see traffic flow maintained and improved. But a large proportion of the citizens preferred to have the downtown open to the waterfront and wanted the highway torn down despite the negative impact on vehicular traffic. Typically the traffic interests would prevail but Nickles refused to “pander” to the traffic interests.
Despite the logic and history and the fact that the Prince was the half-brother of King Fahd and Defense Minister Sultan, women were still not allowed to drive cars.
New transportation technologies required new laws, criminal and civil.
The 30,000 was far fewer than previous decades where automobile deaths had been constantly decreasing from a high of 50,000 a year.
Sebastian Thrun is an entrepreneur, educator, and computer scientist from Germany. He is CEO of Kitty Hawk Corporation, and chairman and co-founder of Udacity. Before that, he was a Google VP and Fellow, a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, and before that at Carnegie Mellon University. At Google, he founded Google X and Google's self-driving car team. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University and at Georgia Tech.
