Autonomous driving
- Austin Vernon, “Humans being awful drivers leads to a massive increase in vehicle costs and weight, makes cars more dangerous to people outside of them, and imposes significant costs on infrastructure like roads.” (austinvernon.site)
- What’s it going to take to reach full autonomous driving? (stratechery.com)
Defense
- Europe isn’t prepared to defend itself absent the U.S. (bloomberg.com)
- How lasers can be used to combat drones. (wsj.com)
Longreads
- The optimistic case for AI from the CEO of Anthropic. (darioamodei.com)
- Why shoplifting remains a problem. (theatlantic.com)
- A crackdown on immigration would devastate American (dairy) farms. (nytimes.com)
- Katie Gatti Tassin, “Looking for a place to live forces you to locate yourself somewhere on this socioeconomic spectrum. It is as much a ritual of self-stratification as it is a practical operation about budgets and commutes.” (moneywithkatie.com)
- OnlyFans is booming. What are users actually getting? (hollywoodreporter.com)
- How new running shoes are helping runners improve their marathon times. (nytimes.com)
- A look the most remote point on the globe, Point Nemo. (theatlantic.com)
