In 50 years, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them.

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.

I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks.

Its a no-brainer for me that at some point our cars will have the ability to drive themselves.

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.

My process is learn, decide, and do. I've never seen a problem that couldn't be solved this way.

The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today?