Astro Teller Quotes

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

I probably have a very controversial view on autonomous driving versus anybody else in the auto industry. I don't believe that it makes any sense for an automaker to develop autonomous driving.

We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That's pretty telling.

Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

It's a no-brainer for me that at some point our cars will have the ability to drive themselves.

I like the word 'autopilot' more than I like the word 'self-driving.' 'Self-driving' sounds like it's going to do something you don't want it to do. 'Autopilot' is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.

Eventually, all cars are going to be autonomous.

My goal is for General Motors to lead in safe autonomous driving.

The promise of autonomous vehicles is great.

For better or worse, we have to bridge this divide between developing cars that drive by the book and cars that drive how you and I drive.

The energy that's going into autonomous vehicles is very significant, and we expect to continue to invest there.

My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today?

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 you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.

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. 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.'

I'm a firm believer that autonomous driving is coming.

Uber's issue, I think the biggest one is driverless cars. That could be a complete reset to the business.

Driverless cars are coming to your street - the only question is, 'When?'

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.

The self-driving car revolution was kicked off by The 'DARPA' Grand Challenge to make an autonomous car traverse 132 mi. of a desert.

Google was the right place to pioneer robot cars.

I think it's very clear now that we will have self-driving cars.

Driverless cars are a great thing.