2024-04-28T10:52:49-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149998584/how-does-one-design-against-magic-used-to-trap-self-driving-cars Julia Ingalls 2017-03-21T12:45:00-04:00 >2020-02-06T19:28:26-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/fe/fevhbt2v7w5028jf.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>As if the challenges of politics, engineering, and weather weren't enough, now self-driving cars face another obstacle: purposeful visual sabotage, in the form of specially painted traffic lines that entice the car in before trapping it in an endless loop. As profiled in <a href="https://creators.vice.com/en_us/article/meet-the-artist-using-ritual-magic-to-trap-self-driving-cars" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vice</a>, the artist behind "Autonomous Trip 001," James Bridle, is demonstrating an unforeseen hazard of automation: those forces which, for whatever reason, want to mess it all up. Which raises the question: how does one effectively design for an impish sense of humor, or a deadly series of misleading markings?</p>