Invisible Dynamics

4.3 million vehicles recalled. Not because a technology didn’t exist. But because, when it mattered most, humans might not understand how to use it quickly enough. Nine automakers are involved in what has been described as China’s largest automotive recall, following concerns around emergency door-release systems that may be difficult to identify and operate when electrical systems fail. At first glance, this is an automotive safety story. But I believe it raises a much broad

In 1974, cognitive psychologists Elizabeth Loftus and John Palmer conducted an experiment that became one of the most influential demonstrations of how reconstructive human memory can be. Participants watched footage of a car accident. Then they were asked to estimate how fast the cars had been travelling. But the researchers changed one word in the question. How fast were the cars going when they hit each other? How fast were they going when they smashed into each other? Sam