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We humans usually feel that we are the best at everything we do, that we can safely drive ourselves. But tens of thousands of people die every year. We need to be open to having technology assist us, to find ways in which technology makes us safer.

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I've developed my passion for cars that drive themselves from being stuck in traffic for many, many, many hours of my life. I don't know what it adds up to, but I feel like I've lost a year or two just in traffic. That's big to me. That's a lot of time, a lot of money that I just lose on the road.

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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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Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world's most admirable higher education system, and yet it is very restrictive. It's so hard to get into. I never got into it as a student.

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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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In my son's kindergarten, they're telling us how to get him into Stanford. By their advice, I'm doing everything wrong, because I'm trying to make him happy rather than putting him through as many piano lessons as possible.

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You have to understand that teaching online is different, just like movies are different from the stage and TV is different from radio.

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I am particularly surprised that certain outlets look at pass rates irrespective of student population. As if inner city high school kids are to fare as well as college students.

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Even as a college professor at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, I saw myself as an entrepreneur, and I went out, took risks, and tried to invent new things, such as participating in the DARPA Grand Challenge and working on self-driving cars.

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Google X is here to do moonshot-type projects. Not just shooting to the moon, but bringing the moon back to Earth.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Scientist

Born: May 14th, 1967

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