Karl Iagnemma

“It's maybe an unrecognized fact of academia that what you spend a lot of your time doing is convincing people of your vision and raising funds to support your research activity. So in that sense, transitioning to a startup wasn't that big of a transition.”

“I usually have a general idea of where the story is going, but I try to avoid planning in too much detail. The best endings are those that emerge only after I've thought long and hard about the various ways the story might end. Then I choose the ending that seems surprising yet somehow inevitable.”

“Partnerships remain critical to nuTonomy's success, and our aim is to work with groups with whom we share strategic aims and core values. These are partners that are transparent, innovative, and are focused on putting autonomous fleets on the road.”

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

“If you develop a technology that only works in a single city, where it's kind of optimized for a specific city, that's not really that exciting.”

“There's a lot of knowledge in civil engineering about how soils will react when subjected to heavy loads. When you take lightweight vehicles and granular soils of varying composition, it's a very complex modeling process.”

“For better or worse, we have to bridge this divide between developing cars that drive by the book and cars that drive how you and I drive.”

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

“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.”