Sebastian Thrun Quotes

In March 2005, I was appointed to the board of the Santa Barbara metro transit district. I was incredibly optimistic about how public transportation can be the solution to help people live in the city and not need a car.

Every person that you can get on a public transportation vehicle is one less person polluting the air or taking up space on our highways.

It makes no sense to make people drive cars.

I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.

Our goal was to completely change transportation. Change traffic. And make it possible to get anywhere you want to go without owning a car.

We need to be able to live in the city without a car; we need to be able to get around. The transit system has to be strong and work for everyone.

Any friend of fossil is a friend of mine... We’ve got to do everything we can to get people out of their automobiles and into mass transit.

I live up Laurel Canyon, and if I want to walk with my son, I have to drive to the park, which is so insane to me.

Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation.

Regardless of our political stance, we cannot afford to perpetuate the Western car-centric model.

Walk, skateboard, bike, car pool, or use mass transit more, and drive less.

I grew up on the bus, or riding my bike, or catching the subway, I've never had a car. In college, any girl I ever dated had a car, too.

I go on the bus, I walk. A friend left his car recently at my house and I took it out one day just for 15 minutes and it was terrible. You know why? I felt like I was back in LA again. Four or five years ago, when I had a car and I had been out of the city I wouldn't feel I was back until I got in the car, you know. But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.

The Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board is established in 1946 in an effort to discover the cause of the brown cloud hanging over the city and decide how to combat and disperse it. In 1949, after intense lobbying from both the automobile and oil industries, and against the recommendations and position of the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board, the public rail system, which at one time was the largest in the world, and still serves a majority of the city's population, is decommissioned and torn out. It is replaced by a small fleet of buses.

Because I'm one of five people in Los Angeles who doesn't drive, I walk a lot.

I'm against government-subsidized parking and government-mandated parking.

If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.

One of the first things a British visitor to Southern California discovers is that he must have a car. Freeways. Bad public transport. I took driving lessons.

I don't have a motorcar, so I've got to know and be fairly fond of the buses.

The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room.

When people switch to car-sharing from car ownership, they reduce their vehicle miles traveled by 44 percent, and thus their greenhouse gas emissions go down by, like, 40 percent.

I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.

There's no way we could take cars off the planet and not have our society fall apart. So they're a necessary evil, in that sense.

I love driving. I still drive a 1993 Toyota Camry. I do want to get an electric car, but it's less of a carbon footprint if you keep your old, fuel-efficient car on the road than if you say 'build me a whole new car.'