Smartphone use now exceeds three hours a day on average, while total daily screen time for many adults crosses six hours.

What if you could teach a computer to recognize a zebra without ever showing it one? Imagine a world where object detection isn’t bound by the limits of endless training data or high-powered hardware.

Portland first adopted the Vision Zero approach to ending traffic fatalities and serious injuries on city streets in 2015. In the decade since, hundreds of people have died in traffic crashes in ...