Elon Musk is confident that Tesla can achieve commercial robotaxi capability before 2022, but what happens if they do? For Zachary Shahan, autonomous-driving technology will quickly become ubiquitous; he predicts that many places, like Florida, will scramble to become early adopters of the technology and prove its safety, expediting its adoption by the public. He predicts that this will cause a chain reaction of other autonomous-driving developers like Waymo to put out their own alternatives, making autonomous-driving even more prevalent. Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
