An autonomous car is in some ways a user iner. People learn their way around it, but when you break the metaphor people start doing weird stuff. How do you build these so that they're comprehensible to users? There's this very reflexive distrust, dislike of a vs that goes on among people who for whom possessions are main way of getting around. And i think what we were offering is part of the solution in that,. But it's not a complete problem. It a solution of that.
Sam Anthony made his first appearance on The Autonocast in 2018, when we discussed his pedestrian intent/prediction startup Perceptive Automata in episode #98. He returns to the show for his first interview since the collapse of that company to reflect on his experience as a founder in the space, his concerns about the sector more broadly, and much more.