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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It won't be a very fast drive going from San Francisco to Los Angeles ? it might just drive 55 mph, it won't go 90 like everybody else does in California.
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The next big milestone we are heading for now is proving self-driving is possible in traffic. Our goal at Stanford is to be able, within the next two years, to drive from downtown San Francisco to downtown Los Angeles with 100 percent autonomy--without any human intervention whatsoever.
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The potential here is enormous. Autonomous vehicles will be as important as the Internet.
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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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We had a good day, ... It has been quite rewarding to partner with Volkswagen on an event that contributes to such significant advancements in vehicle technology.
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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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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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Extrapolate two, three or four years out, and then let your imagination play.
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As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that.
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Any vision that we have for self-driving cars must address driving in traffic.
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The military are interested in more potent weapons, and by itself that's a bad answer.
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If you focus on the single question of who knows best what students need in the workforce, it's the people already in the workforce. Why not give industry a voice?
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It went exactly as I had predicted. I knew exactly how it would react.