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"As opposed to illiteracy, where you can't read, aliteracy means that you can but you just can't be bothered. They say aliteracy is on the rise these days."
- Peter Watts
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| Vision-Based Autonomous Cars | ||
| A vehicle that uses a visual sensor to gather information sufficient to safely drive. |
| Our next step was automatic steering, bo that the machine could avoid obstacles in the road without attention from a driver at a steering-wheel.”
"I don’t understand how these machines can drive automatically,” I interrupted, very much puzzled, "unless they can see?” "They can see!” He pointed to an excrescence on each headlight of the machine, like a bud on a potato. “That’s the selenium eye,” Kaspar explained. “The electrical resistance of the metal selenium varies with the intensity of the light that strikes it; and that is a little camera chamber with a lens and a Selenium network. By its means, the machine can see. |
| Technovelgy from Paradise and Iron,
by Miles J. Breuer. Published by Amazing Stories Quarterly in 1930 Additional resources -
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