Anne Wojcicki Quotes

We need to find innovative ways to dramatically ease congestion, improve personal mobility, and cut energy use.

As the technology is developed, autonomous driving could provide driving opportunities for the physically challenged or enable the elderly to continue driving longer. This will be vital as many nations experience an aging population.

The implementation of autonomous driving needs a whole new rethinking. To really make it an attribute for society, we really need to think differently about where and when and how we implement this.

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.

The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes... cities so packed that they will no longer function... vertical sprawl.

Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish.

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 D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.

I've developed my passion for cars that drive themselves from being stuck in traffic for many, many, many hours of my life. I don't know what it adds up to, but I feel like I've lost a year or two just in traffic. That's big to me. That's a lot of time, a lot of money that I just lose on the road.

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting Hill, Belgravia and Mayfair. All are characterised by high density and a generosity of green spaces.

I know well the opportunities and the challenges of maintaining and improving infrastructure and providing good transportation choices.

Australia has an economic interest in ensuring our cities have 21st century urban rail transport to reduce traffic congestion.

We've got to get people out of their cars, out of those drive-thru windows, get them walking, get them in parks and get them more active.

The energy crisis has given new urgency to the need to improve public transportation, not only in our cities but in rural areas as well…. Mass transit is an essential element of the improvement of life in our cities and towns.

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

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

Every street light will be interconnected to the Internet because we can save when car is not passing. Automobile will all be connected, so driverless car much safer.

Parks represent an efficient, cost-effective way to improve public health.

When you think of driverless cars, there's a huge potential for these cars to save lives by preventing accidents and by reducing congestion on highways.

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

Technology is rapidly changing our transportation systems, and if we craft smart regulations, these changes can be for the better.

Every mom in a minivan, every person commuting - anytime they are on the road, they should be able to go into driver mode and give a ride to a neighbor. That's how we achieve scale.

The hyperloop will be a digital network. That's why we say we look at transportation as a new form of broadband.

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

That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.