The New York Times has a fantastic article about the hallucinogenic view driverless cars will have of our streets when they start driving us around.

Our human glimpse through these robot eyes comes courtesy of Matthew Shaw, a 32-year-old architectural designer and William Trossell, 30 (as well as a small team of laser-­scanner operators), who are experimenting with 3D laser scanners to see what, and how, cars see.

Setting up their laser scanner deep in the woods, they captured low rolling clouds of mist as digital blurs haunting the landscape; moving ice floes scanned from a ship north of the Arctic Circle took shape in their hard drives as overlapping labyrinths on the verge of illegibility, as if the horizon of the world itself had begun to buckle

It's all very strange, and it makes you realize how complex the human brain is, and how that complexity works even during the mundane tasks of everyday life.

Since autonomous vehicles very well may account for 75 percent of the cars on the roads by 2040, it's important to get this right as soon as we can.