How many sensors does it take to screw in a light bulb?
I’m getting embroiled in the user of sensors and sensor networks in computer science, and I kind of wonder why computer science doesn’t borrow a page from biology in modeling these kinds of systems and their behavior.
I feel like a lot of the sensors and sensor systems that are being proposed don’t take advantage of the billions of years of knowledge that Mother Nature accumulated when evolving the world into its current state.
For example, GM has been experimenting with self-driving cars during the past couple of years. But if the best way to get a large, moving object to be spatially cognizant required rear facing video detectors, sonar, or infrared vision, I am sure that elephants would have eyes on their butts and antelope would screech like bats.
That they don’t should be taken as a hint, and I have never seen an elephant knowingly back into a wall or an antelope run into another antelope at full speed. Of course, my African wildlife experience is limited, but you get my drift.
P.S. On a relevant interesting note, all of these creatures have ears… hmm.
I feel like a lot of the sensors and sensor systems that are being proposed don’t take advantage of the billions of years of knowledge that Mother Nature accumulated when evolving the world into its current state.
For example, GM has been experimenting with self-driving cars during the past couple of years. But if the best way to get a large, moving object to be spatially cognizant required rear facing video detectors, sonar, or infrared vision, I am sure that elephants would have eyes on their butts and antelope would screech like bats.
That they don’t should be taken as a hint, and I have never seen an elephant knowingly back into a wall or an antelope run into another antelope at full speed. Of course, my African wildlife experience is limited, but you get my drift.
P.S. On a relevant interesting note, all of these creatures have ears… hmm.
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