We agree that segregated infrastructure is the ultimate solution. But we're technologists and are 0% effective at lobbying for infrastructure. Having had a bunch of friends hurt and killed by distracted drivers, it's us using the skills and capabilities we have to try to make a difference.
And the core of the development is the computer vision technology which allows a whole slew of other applications, including other safety solutions. The sheet numbers of problems solvable with this sort of application-specific human level perception is crazy.
We'll be releasing the winners of stage 1 soon (please feel free to apply!), which will quantify how crazy it is to be able to approach human-level perception (what an object is, and where) for specific myopic tasks (like picking strawberries, or detecting when a car is going to run you over).
Anyway, back to it, I agree personally the solution is infrastructure (which I've tried to write in every location that covers this... but maybe failed to do in that interview). But I view this as a stepping stone to infrastructure. If people are too scared to ride bikes because of the injury and death at the hands of distracted people driving cars, then there will be no push for infrastructure (as why build infrastructure for a thing no one does?).
So the goal is to allow people to ride bikes -safer- before the infrastructure is there... and thereby help drive the infrastructure change (through supply and demand relationship).
And the core of the development is the computer vision technology which allows a whole slew of other applications, including other safety solutions. The sheet numbers of problems solvable with this sort of application-specific human level perception is crazy.
So we are actually doing a competition now around it, here: https://opencv.org/opencv-spatial-ai-competition/
We'll be releasing the winners of stage 1 soon (please feel free to apply!), which will quantify how crazy it is to be able to approach human-level perception (what an object is, and where) for specific myopic tasks (like picking strawberries, or detecting when a car is going to run you over).
Anyway, back to it, I agree personally the solution is infrastructure (which I've tried to write in every location that covers this... but maybe failed to do in that interview). But I view this as a stepping stone to infrastructure. If people are too scared to ride bikes because of the injury and death at the hands of distracted people driving cars, then there will be no push for infrastructure (as why build infrastructure for a thing no one does?).
So the goal is to allow people to ride bikes -safer- before the infrastructure is there... and thereby help drive the infrastructure change (through supply and demand relationship).
Thoughts?
Thanks, Brandon