autonomous vehicles

“They're not getting chosen based on how nice it feels when you slam the door and, you know, the diamond cut chamfered edges. They're getting bought in the same way that Hertz buys cars, and they're getting bought in the same way that a big company buys PCs. Th…”

“And I, one of the really interesting trends is this is going to extend to algorithms. In other words, there are going to be ethical programming that we have to do for our cars, right? So the protocol example is, look, you're building the self-driving car, and …”

“Interesting factoid is that 41 out of the 50 states have still not passed any legislation or any...”

“So think of all the infrastructure that supports these cars, because we're going to have centralized fleets to get the cars fixed and maintained, not my problem. So all of this space is going to free up.”

“And so both research approaches are active. I've talked to people pursuing the look, it's going to be localized in the safe braking distance and how aggressively to take that right turn when you're at a stoplight. All of those things will be pre-programmed for…”

“It was not an autonomous vehicle, but we stated that it was an autonomous vehicle for some user research, and one of the interesting things was we had a button that basically said start ride, and we said, oh, you know, the car's autonomous, you don't have to w…”

“The key intervention here, which I'm hoping cities will guarantee, is to make sure that autonomy comes with sharing, with fleet use. Because once that happens, that drives you for a whole host of reasons to electric vehicles.”

“Then all of a sudden, a huge amount of urban real estate, downtown central city real estate opens up. And I think what it does is it sucks both residential and business activity away from the inner ring of suburbs. Those hollow out, and then we have the challe…”

“And how far will I have to walk? That will just disappear. There'll be generations of people who will never know that anxiety.”

“By the time you get, you know, full self-driving car fleece deployed, and it's, you know, and it's a button on a phone, and the, you know, the ride costs a, you know, a half or a third of what it costs today, it's going to be so cost-effective and so safe. To …”

“If the code were held in a distributive ledger, you know that if someone touched it has a timestamp. You know that the code is the code that was involved in the accident, and that's not esoteric. This is about to change a lot of our lives over the next decade,…”

“I definitely believe they're not going to be driving. They'll be picked up and you know, whether it's, the big question will be two D or three D, right, getting you from .1.”

“Frankly, there was a lot of concern that we could end up with you know, a situation where 50 different states had 50 different regulations when it comes to autonomous vehicles. And what we tried to do is to lay out a framework that wasn't prescriptive, that le…”

“As, you know, autonomous really takes off on the street, you start to see autonomous and drones as, you know, combined the next big paradigm shift in our settlement patterns, right?”

“Because if you own all the cars, they're going to be lightly utilized at the times when there's not lots of passengers.”

“I've ridden in three autonomous vehicles, and boy, these things are very close to ready for prime time.”

“Crime rate will drop, in my opinion, because basically every car will became a moving sensor, collecting tons of real-time information.”

“Maps is a pretty sophisticated product, but we would do, like, updates where we'd have P-zero bugs introduced into, like, the public domain, and we'd immediately fix those. You can't do that in autonomous vehicles.”

“The professional quote unquote companies that have brands that have so much riding on it that can't afford to have a real issue, that's not the problem. It's a long tail. It's like fintech regulation. It's not regulating necessarily the Goldman's and Morgan St…”

“I think bikes will transform cities more than autonomous vehicles over the next 20 to 30 years, and that's because autonomous vehicles are largely going to be transformative in the safety arena.”

“And I think the, probably a good analogy to think about where we are specifically is, that I like to use is, where mobile was in kind of roughly 2005. What we consider to be the modern smartphone isn't really there.”

“And so I think with autonomy, I think the arc here, you, you'll see all these individual modules will be run by individual players because there is this natural arc in capitalism, which says the independent providers can do cheaper, better, and faster than any…”

“So what the general public though will consider the autonomy moment is when you meet somebody who doesn't live in Silicon Valley, doesn't work in technology, and they've done, they've had an autonomous ride. Maybe it's on college campuses, maybe it's an airpor…”

“It thinks about many small details. Where is it positioning itself? How much gap is it leaving? What's its velocity so that it has the greatest optionality if somebody were to behave recklessly. So when we are crossing that sign, we're not assuming that everyb…”

“So for example, for that pedestrian, ah, in addition to seeing that they're there, acknowledging, which was this problem one, you got to look at even their gait, their hand movement, their leg movement to anticipate, are they about to take motion?”

“Specifically about the steering wheel block. Currently by regulations beyond a certain number of vehicles and so on.”

“And by the time he grows up, this will be the more common route.”

“It depends on the context. If you're on a busy street like that, and somebody's going to a business, they would like to be dropped very likely in front of the business they're going to. Whereas if they are getting out of home, going to work, and it's a narrow …”

“We've invested seventy five billion dollars as an industry, and while we do have autonomous vehicles on the road, and they're great, and they're solving real problems, the unit economics are still worse than, say, Uber and Lyft, because they're competing again…”

“Even to look at autonomous vehicles, I mean, as an industry, we've invested, like, what, a hundred billion dollars in it.”

“The story for autonomous vehicles is, is that even after the industry's put a hundred billion dollars in it, a hundred billion, the unit economics are still, you know, let's call it on par with Uber.”