Autonomous Cars and Misleading Headlines
The Associated Press attached a very misleading headline to a story about the expected collision rate of the autonomous cars of the near future. This is their published headline: Study: Autonomous vehicles won’t make roads completely safe The headline is technically true. No autonomous car technology will ever prevent all car accidents. Nor will it …
The Medical Supply Drones of Africa
This is a great look at how new technologies can overcome huge gaps in existing infrastructure to help people in the developing world. Zipline is a delivery service for medicine and other critical supplies in Rwanda. Very impressive engineering solution.
Will Population Increase or Decrease?
Contrary to the common worry that the world will soon become overpopulated, two Canadian researchers have a new book out, Empty Planet, to make the statistical case that the opposite may actually occur. They base their argument around some trends the United Nations doesn’t take into account in their projections, including how the increasing education …
