Karl Iagnemma Quotes

Karl Iagnemma

Profession : Writer

Birth : October 19, 1972

Writing, for me at least, takes a lot of concentrated work and effort. It takes dedication and the willingness to do the work even when that feeling of inspiration isn't there at all.

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You have to force yourself to give up and to move onto something else. That's the way you grow as a writer, by trying new things and tackling new subjects. But it's difficult. There's part of you that doesn't want to give up because you realize that, in some way, you're surrendering.

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When I first started writing, I didn't write about scientists at all. I think I wanted a break from that part of my world.

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I'm really not interested in writing about science at all. I mean, I try to get the information right, the details right. But fiction isn't good at conveying information: It's good at telling stories about people in interesting situations.

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To the extent that trolley problem scenarios exist in the real world, AVs will make them rarer, not more frequent.

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Even if trolley problems were a realistic concern for AVs, it is not clear what, if anything, regulators or companies developing AVs should do about them. The trolley problem is an intensely debated thought experiment precisely because there isn't a consensus on what should be done.

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Conflating thought experiments with reality could slow the deployment of AVs that are reliably safer than human drivers.

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We are all vulnerable to the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of vivid, cognitively available risks rather than statistically likelier, but less salient, risks.

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Everything that's transported over ground, whether it's people or parcels, will be impacted by autonomous vehicle technology.

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Uniformity is the friend of scalability.

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It's challenging to drive in a way that's human-like.

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There's so much rich interaction with drivers that we take for granted. It seems like a mundane thing, but it turns out to be a really big deal.

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From a technology and economic perspective, it's vastly more likely that autonomy will be used for mobility services.

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It's a cultural question. Will people want to share cars?

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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 to deal with.

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Singapore's not a very big country. They speak with one voice, and they have a clear idea of what their regulatory environment should look like.

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We want to develop a technology that's globally applicable, that's not customized for a specific city or a specific country. The only way to do that is to be able to test every day in a diversity of environments.

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It's important for automated cars to be able to drive in a human-like fashion - and that does mean adapting to the driving patterns around you.

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From a societal aspect, when you are impatient behind a driverless car and there's no one to listen to your beeping horn, what are people going to do? How are they going to take out their aggression?

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Surveys show that while many people are open to the idea of an autonomous vehicle driving them to work, far fewer are willing to let one drive their child to soccer practice.

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