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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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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Any vision that we have for self-driving cars must address driving in traffic.
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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.
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You have to understand that teaching online is different, just like movies are different from the stage and TV is different from radio.
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Extrapolate two, three or four years out, and then let your imagination play.
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We have done the impossible. People said: 'Give up it's not possible', but we did it.
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We don't look at problems logically, we look at them emotionally. We look at them through the guts. We look at them as if we're doing a high school problem, like what is beautiful, what makes me recognized among my peers. We don't go and think about things. We, as a society, don't wish to engage in rational thought.
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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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Last year's teams failed almost exclusively because of software problems,
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It is only a matter of time until consumers have self-driving cars.
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That was a turning point in the race.
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I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view.
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I find it amazingly easy to take something, if you really believe in it, and turn it to reality.
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I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.