#Autonomous Vehicles

A silent overlord behind the wheel, trumpeting the promise of autonomy while quietly stealing responsibility from humans. It lulls users into a false sense of security with unexpected maneuvers and capricious sensors. Serving as a tacit lecturer on the gulf between ideal automation and messy traffic, its sudden jerks are uncomfortable lessons. Ultimately, it carries humanity’s recklessness across streets as a glorified, glitch-prone metal box of the future.

LIDAR is the collective name for the technology that bombards the world with laser beams and reduces reality to a cloud of points. By counting the returns of light from objects, this device quantifies its own raison d’être in numerical form. Humanity gleefully crafts three-dimensional landscapes with it while simultaneously spawning countless ghost data that haunt storage silos. From autonomous vehicles to geological surveys, it stands as the border device between dream and reality, turning perceived landscapes into ephemeral pointillist sketches. We celebrate each increase in its accuracy, only to be reminded of our own inadequacies when overwhelmed by an ocean of point data.