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Monthly Archives: January 2019

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Good times at ILMF 2019

The 2019 edition of the International Lidar Mapping Forum is a wrap. The folks at Diversified Communications provided a booth (thank you!), which gave me the opportunity to hang out and chat with a bunch of interesting folks for the better part...

January 31, 2019 toddneff ILMF, lidar, lidar history 0 Comments

Elon Musk is right: lidar is a crutch

Elon Musk was right when he called lidar a “crutch” when it came to self-driving cars. Where he’s not right, though, is that the technology’s crutchitude is somehow a reason not to employ lidar—which uses lasers to scan the world around them...

January 31, 2019 toddneff autonomous vehicles, elon musk, lidar 0 Comments

At ILMF 2019, a mobile lidar story about Afghanistan 2003

I’m at the International Lidar Mapping Forum in Denver for the third-straight year. The first year, I came to get some sense of the lidar landscape for a book project I was thinking about proposing. That experience distilled into the opener for...

January 29, 2019 toddneff 0 Comments
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