
The Infinite Retina
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If you sit in a cafe in Mountain View, or a variety of other places near San Francisco, and watch the world go by, you’ll see a variety of autonomous cars roll by your table from companies such as Zoox, Waymo, and Cruise, as well as Teslas, which are more popular here than most other car brands. On the freeways nearby, you’re likely to see semi-trailer trucks loaded with futuristic sensors.
It’s clear from just watching the contraptions being tested on these roads (along with a few other cities, such as Phoenix, Arizona) that the future of transportation will be different than it is today, but most people are still grappling with just how different it will be. Lots of us have arguments about when autonomous vehicles will be far more ubiquitous than the Waymos that you see pass through here every few minutes.
Today, even Waymos are limited to certain neighborhoods, and there’s a technical reason for that; they can only go down...
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