quite a while,” said Wozniak. “I’ve thought
about computers versus the human, com-
puter smartness versus the brain—would
a computer ever be able to equal the
brain? And I’ve always been very negative
that it wouldn’t even come close. Now I’ve
modified it to say Artificial Intelligence will
come close.”
“When autonomous driving became a
topic, one of the first thing I [considered]
is that airplanes fly themselves—some of
them all the way until the landing, and its
safer than a human doing it in a lot of cas-
es. If cars didn’t run through red lights and
hit other cars it would be quite a fantastic
savings for humanity, so I became a fan of
it,” he said.
“Tesla is getting closer to an autonomous
driving car, and Chevrolet has been running
50 autonomous driving cars of them a year
autonomously in San Francisco, and they
just ordered 200 more for that program.”
Wozniak is keeping a close eye on electric
automobiles as well. “I read about every
car company in the world that is working
on electric cars and self driving cars. I’m
interested in both as separate categories
because I like seeing the world go from
ugly gas burning cars to a nice, clean, elec-
tric world, and…economically, by 2022 or
2025 [electric cars] will be cheaper than a
gas car. Electric cars turn me on a lot. At
home, I have electric vehicles I have a Tes-
la, and a Chevy volt, and I have a Segway.”
“[My wife and I] we go any where in the
country with our electric cars. Long ago I
drove a Hummer One, and I was king of
the road, and then I (dramatically) switched
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