Why avoiding potholes is harder than avoiding pedestrians for AI
aakashgupta · x · 2026-08-31
NASA JPL robotics lab explains that avoiding potholes is harder than avoiding pedestrians due to geometry. While an object's size shrinks linearly with distance, a hole's size shrinks quadratically, making deep potholes appear as thin slivers at speed and hiding their depth from cameras.
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