Building cars is highly specialized, it's hard, and it's capital intensive. — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
The AV ecosystem is constantly evolving, and no single winner will be crowned. — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
It's funny how life works. You end up sometimes back where you started. — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
I grew up in Michigan, in the Detroit area, so cars are sort of in my DNA. — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
Even if we wanted to imbue an autonomous vehicle with an ethical engine, we don't have the technical capability today to do… — Karl Iagnemma Autonomous Copy Share Image
From a technology and economic perspective, it's vastly more likely that autonomy will be used for mobility services. — Karl Iagnemma Autonomy Copy Share Image
Cities like New Delhi for example, where traffic is dense and it's a more fluid driving environment, that's hard for self-driving technology… — Karl Iagnemma Driving Copy Share Image
Conflating thought experiments with reality could slow the deployment of AVs that are reliably safer than human drivers. — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
Everybody likes driving through scenic, winding roads. It's hard to find people who like sitting in traffic in cities. — Karl Iagnemma Driving Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, I didn't write about scientists at all. I think I wanted a break from that part of… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
The fundamental problem here is that humans and automation approach the driving task differently. — Karl Iagnemma Automation Copy Share Image
We hope to get to the place where there are thousands of Peugeot cars on the road running nuTonomy software. — Karl Iagnemma Hope Copy Share Image
I'm really not interested in writing about science at all. I mean, I try to get the information right, the details right.… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
In Singapore, drivers generally obey the rules, but the attitude around pedestrians is actually quite different. It's culturally different. People drive safely,… — Karl Iagnemma Attitude Copy Share Image
We want to develop a technology that's globally applicable, that's not customized for a specific city or a specific country. The only… — Karl Iagnemma Day Copy Share Image
“I made a quick calculation: a 180-pound man, falling thirty feet under an acceleration of 32.2 feet per second square—I drew the… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
From a societal aspect, when you are impatient behind a driverless car and there's no one to listen to your beeping horn,… — Karl Iagnemma Aggression Copy Share Image
In the automotive domain, generally speaking, when you look at consortium models, the groups that have leading technology are less incentivized to… — Karl Iagnemma Domain Copy Share Image
We are all vulnerable to the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of vivid, cognitively available risks rather than statistically likelier, but less… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
Writing, for me at least, takes a lot of concentrated work and effort. It takes dedication and the willingness to do the… — Karl Iagnemma Dedication Copy Share Image
I love driving through Western Massachusetts, out through the Berkshires, when the road is empty and it's a nice day. I don't… — Karl Iagnemma Day Copy Share Image
Everything that's transported over ground, whether it's people or parcels, will be impacted by autonomous vehicle technology. — Karl Iagnemma Autonomous Copy Share Image
“This is an indisputable fact: there are many, many people around here who love things that will never love them back.” — Karl Iagnemma Love Copy Share Image
If you're a large organization, you may welcome a bit of regulation to keep the small guys out. — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
There's so much rich interaction with drivers that we take for granted. It seems like a mundane thing, but it turns out… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
The thing about stories is that they almost always find their way onto the page, even if it takes a while. — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
Our first iteration of driverless cars kind of drove like trolleys on a track. This uncanny notion threw people off. — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
For better or worse, we have to bridge this divide between developing cars that drive by the book and cars that drive… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
It's important for automated cars to be able to drive in a human-like fashion - and that does mean adapting to the… — Karl Iagnemma Drive Copy Share Image
If you develop a technology that only works in a single city, where it's kind of optimized for a specific city, that's… — Karl Iagnemma City Copy Share Image
To the extent that trolley problem scenarios exist in the real world, AVs will make them rarer, not more frequent. — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
When a driverless car looks out on the world, it's not able to distinguish the age of a pedestrian or the number… — Karl Iagnemma Age Copy Share Image
Singapore's not a very big country. They speak with one voice, and they have a clear idea of what their regulatory environment… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
My stories often begin with a situation or character rather than an insight about the human condition. It's always been difficult for… — Karl Iagnemma Abstract Copy Share Image
Even if trolley problems were a realistic concern for AVs, it is not clear what, if anything, regulators or companies developing AVs… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
There's a lot of knowledge in civil engineering about how soils will react when subjected to heavy loads. When you take lightweight… — Karl Iagnemma Civil engineering Copy Share Image
For self-driving cars in particular, there are lots of dimensions of this technology beyond just impact on labour. There is a massive… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
