The world is square

How we choose to describe something very often constrains how we think about it. For example, placing the adjective “flat” in front of “Earth” possibly misled more than a few downstream researchers, navigators and map makers in ancient times, some even still.

Today’s autonomous vehicle (AV) developers describe the driving experience in terms of a square or other geometric shape with edges and corners. This immediately conveys that our experience is defined as a well understood solution space bounded on its known edges by the more challenging problems. The not-so-subtle message is that AV developers can look at the world and clearly scope the challenge of making it autonomous.

https://www.ccjdigital.com/equipment-controls/article/15280383/the-world-is-square