Sebastian Thrun: Google's driverless car

因为朋友在一场车祸中去世，就决定致力一生于自动驾驶车的研究，想要拯救更多的生命，
因为很多年轻人的死亡都源于车祸，而这些车祸的发生大多是由于人为因素，
自动驾驶车的研发，可以帮助降低这种风险，而且可以节省下来时间。

dedicate my life to saving one million people every year.
driving accidents are the number one cause of death for young people
almost all of those are due to human error and not machine error,
and can therefore be prevented by machines?
spend an average of 52 minutes per day in traffic, wasting your time on your daily commute
four billion hours wasted in this country alone.
2.4 billion gallons of gasoline wasted

DARPA Grand Challenges
a self-driving car that could navigate a desert. 能成功穿越一片沙漠的无人驾驶汽车
So we decided at Stanford to build a different self-driving car. We built the hardware and the software. We made it learn from us, and we set it free in the desert.
Since, our work has focused on building driving cars that can drive anywhere by themselves
Our cars have sensors by which they magically can see everything around them and make decisions about every aspect of driving.
joggers, busy highways, toll booths, Mountain roads, day and night, and even crooked Lombard Street，even a little stunts，慢跑，繁忙的高速公路，收费站，山路，昼夜，歪歪扭扭的朗伯德街，特技
staying in the lane，在行车道间