Casper Kessels

Claude one shotted the migration from Gatsby to Astro of my blog, zero mistakes. Threw in a little redesign for the fun of it! theturnsignalblog.com

I’m excited to announce a partnership with @Uber. As part of this, Uber plans to invest up to $1.25 billion in Rivian and deploy up to 50,000 R2 robotaxis. This partnership accelerates our path to Level 4 autonomy and supports our goal of building one of the safest autonomous platforms in the world—across both shared and personally owned vehicles. The combination of Rivian’s rapidly growing data flywheel, our in-house RAP1 inference platform (800 TOPS), and our multi-modal perception stack provides a powerful foundation to scale autonomy quickly and responsibly over the next couple of years.

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe in new interview on self-driving: "@Tesla's got a huge fleet. So our approach is we have to catch up with them and compete. And so we're going to have more cameras with better dynamic range. We're going to supplement that with LiDAR that provides better safety for edge case conditions and allows us to train the vision models faster. And the incremental cost to do that is relatively small. And in fact any of the incremental costs that would have been there on its own is offset by the fact that we brought inference in house and reduced the cost of our inference platform so dramatically from what we have in your car. Your car uses an Nvidia inference platform. I say all this because in like the infinite long-term you know, you could make the case that once the models are very very robust you could have less cameras or you may be able to get away with less radar. It's not clear yet if that's the case for covering all these corner cases."

Two months at Rivian and it already feels like so much longer. R2 is going to be a special car, so much exciting stuff in the works!

As the self proclaimed @Rivian software fanboy that I am, I am really exciting for the direction that Rivian is taking in UI design. What you see here is just the beginning, there's so much more planned. @WassymBensaid and the team deserve so much praise.

The Rivian R2's steering wheel is really clever 👀 Full first drive on AutoFocus: youtu.be/EfReqcUJfBU?si…

@illfab @mike_matas It's amazing. The level of craft is unparalleled in the car industry. The balance between digital and physical, and the way those two modes integrate is so well done. Perhaps some parts, the center display in particular, could be a bit less 'Apple' and more 'Ferrari' IMO.

@mike_matas @CasperKessels curious to know your thoughts about this 👀

After many years of development, I’m excited to share the interior of the first electric Ferrari designed by LoveFrom. Tactile controls and digital interactions blend into one cohesive interface, shaped through deep collaboration across engineering, interaction, graphics, typography, sound, and industrial design. So incredibly proud of the thoughtfulness and care the team brought to every detail. ferrari.com/en-US/auto/fer…

@AutoPap Wow what a nice poster!

Looking forward to Retromobile this week.

R2 manufacturing validation builds are rolling off the line in Normal! Beyond excited to start delivering to customers soon.

@daviporciuncula Best in hospitality and cooking! Very fun road indeed, even in an underpowered rental shitbox!

@CasperKessels Nice mate, the road from rio to minas gerais up the mountain are great fun. Hope you've enjoyed it. Os mineiros are some of the best in hospitality, i think 🇧🇷

I salute the gentleman who is keeping his 164 alive in Brazil

@daviporciuncula Visiting family

@CasperKessels Wild thing to visit Brasil and go to Juiz de Fora, quick trip from Rio?

I've joined @Rivian! I'll be working as Lead Designer focused on Autonomy and I couldn't be more excited to help shape the future of driving! Just arrived in the Bay Area so say hi if you're around!

3 years ago, I didn't see a single BYD in Brazil. Now they're everywhere. BYD uses Android without Google services, and interestingly, every Uber driver I've talked to has been to "a guy" who unlocked the system to sideload Waze and other apps instead of using CarPlay or AA.

Nice to see this change! To make it perfect, there should be different affordances for up/down, plus/minus, and on/off.

A beautiful video on typeface design from Volvo Cars. I’m drawn to brands that openly communicate the thinking and craft behind their UX and visual design teams. And the Volvo EX60 looks to be just around the corner. @volvocars #ux youtu.be/Y3mbS6AqmCA?si…

Having fun with shaders!

Language learning apps never properly match my level or pace, so I spent an evening vibe coding a Portuguese verb-conjugation trainer tailored to how I learn. Wild how fast you can build something that works better than existing apps.

60 euros for what?! Why stop there, why not make the seat optional as well! It's only a 70K car...

Today I learned that carmakers can’t agree on which way the seat icons should face. BMW is so confused they use both directions in the same system. Obviously the only correct way is how Tesla and Rivian do it