Paul W. S. Anderson 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.

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.

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.

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

I'm a believer in air bags.

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.

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.

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.

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

Automobiles are dangerous as all get-out.

Airbags are a lot of baloney, no matter what Allstate says or no matter what the DOT says.

What are the crumple zones on scooters? The helmet is the only crumple zone I can think of.

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

I look at safety as, you know, there's active and passive. Passive is how do you survive a crash. Active is accident avoidance. And so that's real-time information to you, as a driver, and to your car, to the wheels of a car that will get you out of a bad situation.

Of course, the cars are getting safer and safer but, when you are going at 340km/h, it can never be safe. This I knew from the start.

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.

I know this about the American people: We welcome competition. We'll match our ingenuity, our energy, our experience and technology, our spirit and enterprise against anyone.

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.

Very interested in any technology that can help create a safer and more secure America.

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.

The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that's long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.

The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.

TV in the middle of my steering wheel.

To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.