Stefan and I quickly realized that we are both interested in the same intellectual questions about how the world should work, and the relationship between humanity and technology. We met at Stanford, where we were classmates in the Symbolic Systems major. Driving will thus become safer and highly collaborative, with greater cooperation leading to greater efficiency. Driving will become a networked activity, with tighter feedback loops and a much greater ability to aggregate, analyze, and redistribute knowledge. In my post, I said that in a world where all vehicles are networked and autonomous, every car on the road will benefit from what every other car has learned. That piece was deeply informed by conversations I had with my friend, Stefan Heck, the CEO and founder of Nauto.

In 2015, I published a post on the future of autonomous cars, “ Driving in the Networked Age”. By Reid Hoffman I have been thinking about the development and deployment of autonomous driving technology for years now.

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