Ingels uses a line by Google CEO Eric Schmidt about the ridiculousness of human-piloted cars and the inevitable carnage that has resulted from allowing so much potential for human error into the system.

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But given the Obama administration's difficulty in filling the role and the long line of candidates who preceded him, Schmidt may not have been chosen for his "rock star" status.

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