CarCrashApocalypse — Not Quite Yet
“HACKED” STOP-SIGN CAUSES CAR CRASH — the headline pretty much writes itself, correct? The spate of self-driving cars in accidents (•), combined with all the articles about how to mess with image recognition means that it’s not going to be all that far in the future when somebody will hack that stop-sign, and #CarCrashApocalypse will be here. Or maybe not. It turns out that the story is quite a bit more complicated than that, for a very very good reason — humans already suck at seeing things. Motorcycles Take motorcycles for example — there is a reason why cars run into them all the time, and it isn’t because the motorcyclist did something stupid. /via https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a28306/why-you-dont-see-motorcycles-on-the-road/ motorcycles fall into that category of things that we don’t always perceive even if they are right in our field of vision. A motorcycle approaching head-on from a dista...