Two architectural designers are using part of the same technology that helps power driverless cars to create art.
Matthew Shaw and William Trossell, founders of the London-based design studio called ScanLAB, are using mobile laser scanners to map the city of London. Their aim is to show the city through the eyes of a self-driving car, The New York Times reports.
Driverless cars are decked with technology to help them perceive the world around them just as it is.
Companies like Google and BMW us 3D scanners, cameras, and other sensors to enable their self-driving cars to process their environment and make decisions.
The aim is to get the technology to the point where it can see and drive much better than a human. To do this, the car is constantly taking in data and using corrective algorithms to fix any misperceptions. Fixing these flaws is absolutely necessary to make driverless car safe.
But for Shaw and Trossell, the car’s misperceptions make for better art. So they disable certain aspects of their scanners sensors to capture the city, flaws and all, the Times reports.
Here’s a look at some of the images ScanLAB captured when driving around the streets of London with a mobile laser scanner.
