Sebastian Thrun
Sebastian Thrun
Sebastian Thrunis an innovator, entrepreneur educator, and computer scientist from Germany. He was CEO and cofounder of Udacity. Before that, he was a Google VP and Fellow, and a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. At Google, he founded Google X. He is currently also an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University and at Georgia Tech...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth14 May 1967
CountryGermany
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Even as a college professor at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, I saw myself as an entrepreneur, and I went out, took risks, and tried to invent new things, such as participating in the DARPA Grand Challenge and working on self-driving cars.
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The problem with cars now is that they spend the vast majority of their time parked in the wrong location so they cannot be used by other drivers,
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None of us think about a world where all the cars are automated all the time. It could take society 20 years to adopt the technology.
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It's a no-brainer that 50 to 60 years from now, cars will drive themselves,
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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.
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Honestly, the average American spends about 52 minutes a day in commute traffic. And as much as I love driving my car and many people like driving their car, commuting has never been fun for me.
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I always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me.
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Any vision that we have for self-driving cars must address driving in traffic.
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I honestly believe that the impact of this and other things related to self-driving cars could turn out to be more fundamental to mankind than the invention of the internet,
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I am a big fan of putting the intelligence in the cars.
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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.
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I'm really looking forward to a time when generations after us look back and say how ridiculous it was that humans were driving cars.
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Its a no-brainer for me that at some point our cars will have the ability to drive themselves.
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The dream of cars driving themselves is becoming a reality. Before, the question was whether it was possible. Now we know it is.