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HomeTag: autonomous vehicles

A Q&A with Velodyne

TweetShareShareI wrote quite a bit about Velodyne in The Laser That’s Changing the World — David Hall, the company’s founder and CEO, is a brilliant engineer who developed the lidar sensor that paved they way for the first great...

May 23, 2019 toddneff autonomous vehicles, lidar, Velodyne 1091

Elon Musk is right: lidar is a crutch

TweetShareShareElon 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...

January 31, 2019 toddneff autonomous vehicles, elon musk, lidar 1126
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