Sebastian Thrun Quotes

We lose 30,000 lives on our highways every year. We can certainly do better.

Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour.

Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people are killed in car accidents around the world each year, and more than 50 million are injured. Why? Largely because one perilous element in the mechanics of driving remains unperfected by progress: the human being.

My big concern is keeping people off the highways today, so that we have no further accidents.

The self-driving car is coming. And right now, our best supply of organs come from car accidents... Once we have self-driving cars, we can actually reduce the number of accidents, but the next problem then would be organ replacement.

In the '70s, there were economists who argued that seat belts were causing people to drive faster and kill more pedestrians. But after 15 or 20 years of research, we can now conclude that's actually not true. Seat belts, on net, do make people safer. So, on an evidence-based process, we should have people wear seat belts.

Besides Germany, the only countries that don't have speed limits are places like Nepal, where road conditions are so bad that a limit would be beside the point. In other words, it's a little crazy that this is even a topic for debate in Germany.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

Man, wear your seat belts. That's all I can tell everybody. You never know.

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.

That was never on my radar, traffic stopping. It was never important to me.

Cars are the reason we, you know, people live or die.

Automobiles are dangerous as all get-out.

Today, tomorrow and every day, we will see at least 2,000 young children killed or seriously injured on the world's roads. This is unacceptable, preventable, and we have to stop it. We have the vaccines for this disease: helmets, seatbelts, speed enforcement, safe road design. We just need to use them.

Do you know that driving accidents are the number one cause of death for young people?

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.

A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.

The M6 is terrible and there are always accidents when there is a big highway with lots of traffic.

People have to be more careful in traffic. It's hard to ride bikes in Curitiba.

The biggest reason we want autonomous cars is to prevent accidents.

Car accidents kill so many of us; we're not going to give up cars, so it seems like we ought to make them harder to crash.

For whatever reason, people know that car crashes can happen but they don't live with that fear every day when they're driving, or they're able to overcome it.

One of the things we can be sure of over the July 4th weekend is that news reports will keep telling us how many of us are going to die in automobile accidents.

Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road.

I'm just a careful person around wheels and stuff like that. I try to be as cautious as I can, cause I lost friends to motorcycle accidents and car accidents. So I don't ever play around anything like that.