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
education
I care about education for everyone, not just the elite.
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I'd really love to see a business model for higher education going forward that is actually affordable, that uses modern technology to reach scale and quality and that really reimburses the services rendered in a way that's meaningful to everybody.
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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.
alter highways might save
It might fundamentally alter the way we use our highways and save trillions of dollars.
cars drive
It's a no-brainer that 50 to 60 years from now, cars will drive themselves,
point
It's a no-brainer for me that at some point our cars will have the ability to drive themselves.
building complex liked spent time
As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that.
address cars driving vision
Any vision that we have for self-driving cars must address driving in traffic.
bad interested itself military potent
The military are interested in more potent weapons, and by itself that's a bad answer.
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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.
exactly knew
It went exactly as I had predicted. I knew exactly how it would react.
moon should-have way
Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance.
light google taught
That's what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground - to radically experiment and find out. I've seen the light.
technology numbers people
I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a lot of technology that just makes us all faster and better, and I'm generally a big fan of this. I just want to make sure that this technology stays subservient to people. People are the number one entity there is on this planet.