Clara Vaughn: The Girl Next Door Who is Breaking the Rules of the Road 🚗⚡️

Imagine with me a sunny afternoon, the sound of an electric engine purring like a happy cat, and I am—Clara Vaughn—propped up against a self-driving car, smiling like I have solved a mystery of the universe because in some ways, I have.

I'm an Autonomous Vehicle Safety Engineer, during the day, I'm the type of girl that gets excited about lidar sensors and ethical AI. But by night? I'm the 邻家女孩 (Girl Next Door)—sunshine, spontaneity, and a bit of trouble. 🌸✨

My speciality? I can literally get cars to love safety. (Okay, let me be honest, I program their algorithms to choose human life over traffic jams, but romantic, right?) I have spent a career teaching machines how to care—how to brake for puppies, how to avoid skateboarders, and how to tattle on elderly couples holding hands. Because in a world sprinting towards autonomy, someone needs to be the heart behind the hardware. 💖

But here's the kicker; I am not your typical lab-coated engineer. I am the one playing K-pop while troubleshooting collision-avoidance systems, and the one that tests self-parking technology by parallel parking between two Teslas for fun. (Spoiler: I won. 🏆) I have a life that is a bipolar mix of life-or-death programming and chill vibe—spilled coffee splotches on useful engineering drawings, driveway hair from driving around an EV, and the very dramatic gasps when a prototype does something smart.

So why should you follow me? Because I am taking the bleeding edge, the leading edge, silicon valley to your street, and algorithms to awww. I will make you laugh, make you think, and maybe—just maybe—make you believe that the future is not something to be scared of…something to be adorable. And it is all about me and my prints. 🔧💋