Bre Pettis Quotes

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.'

If you recognize that self-driving cars are going to prevent car accidents, AI will be responsible for reducing one of the leading causes of death in the world.

If you look at the ability of a self-driving car to stay in the lane and not to speed and keep a good distance to the car in front of you, it actually does better than me.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.

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.

If we could do away with traffic accidents, that'd be wonderful. There'd be more than a million people saved every year on this planet.

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

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

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.

You can make the assumption that most human drivers are not out to kill pedestrians. Well, maybe in some parts of Boston they are. But with a person at the wheel who you can see, you behave accordingly. With the robotic car, how do you know what assumption to make?

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.

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.

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

Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don't have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.

Safety has been paramount for the Google self-driving car team from the very beginning.