Archive (Page 2) • Apperceptive by Sam • Buttondown

What if we were actually trying to use technology to make cars safe?

Photo by Joshua Hoehne on Unsplash For the avoidance of doubt, I don’t think that the primary of even secondary goal of autonomous car companies is road...

Computer vision is badly defined

DALL-E 2 trying to express the puzzlement of a computer looking at a human The perception systems in autonomous cars have been struggling with providing the...

The urbanist case for autonomous cars

Photo by Fons Heijnsbroek on Unsplash Around the corner from where I live, they're building a new subway station. It's part of the first major expansion of...

What autonomous cars see

Photo by nik radzi on Unsplash Autonomous cars are operating based on a set of information about the world completely different from the information on which...

The Nightmare Scenario

This is something I've believed for decades. I grew up in one of the last true streetcar suburbs in the country, a bucolic (and now unaffordable) place which...

Driving is a social process

Photo by Sangga Rima Roman Selia on Unsplash There is something very strange about automobiles. They are much faster and more dangerous than our brains are...

On harm reduction

Photo by Jordan Bebek on Unsplash I spent the last seven years of my life trying to convince the autonomous vehicle industry of two things: first, that...