Most of this brief history went unchanged, being history. But lidar’s been a continuing story, so some updates were in order.
The world according to Velodyne's VLS-128, since renamed the Alpha Puck. (Courtesy Velodyne)
I 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 leaps in vehicle autonomy,…