Their responses included gray, cold, vodka, poor, white, unsmiling, friendly, sad, boring, hard-living, fast-driving, hard-working, car-stealing, argumentative, creative, chauvinistic, chaotic, conservative, romantic, sentimental, anti-Semitic, Catholic, Walesa, Solidarity, Auschwitz, Chopin.
Internet giant Baidu is fast-forwarding its own self-driving car tests with a new public trial of autonomous vehicles, including cars supplied by Chinese automakers BYD, Chery and BAIC.
Asked what he does now instead of driving cars fast, Williams joked: "Driving fast without somebody seeing me.
Fast forward to today, and "self-driving car" is becoming a common descriptor.
The main appeal: driving a fast car fast, on a course designed to accommodate high speeds safely.
Another passion was speed; he did National Service flying Spitfires, and later enjoyed driving cars too fast.
"U.S. regulators are embracing self-driving cars faster than tech in the past, poising the nation for gains from the auto industry shift".
With Quayside, Google has the chance to rollout self-driving cars faster than its rivals.
It's a philosophy that's reflected in Kimball's fondness for simple, unpretentious food, as well as in his personal passions, which include driving fast, gorgeous cars ("Driving with Chris in his Maserati in Boston is a death wish," says Bishop, who says that once was enough for him) and the Grateful Dead (Kimball plays in a Grateful Dead cover band).
This timidity might seem surprising, given that Mr. Pauch spends much of his time driving cars as fast as he can.
Thorny questions of prohibition may be dodged in favour of, for example, licensing fast lanes for connected, self-driving cars, or creating urban zones where shared, autonomous, electric vehicles of some description become the only mode of transport, reshaping mass public transport.
