Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
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Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
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Re: Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
#2I saw a Waymo in Seattle, today. If Waymo can get Seattle right, that gives me a lot of confidence that their stack is very capable of difficult road conditions.
Note: I have not had the pleasure of riding in one yet, but from what my friend in SJ says, it’s very convenient and confidence-inspiring.
Re: Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
#3I saw a Waymo in Seattle, today. If Waymo can get Seattle right, that gives me a lot of confidence that their stack is very capable of difficult road conditions. Note: I have not had the pleasure of riding in one yet, but from what my friend in SJ says, it’s very convenient and confidence-inspiring.
I have had the pleasure of riding a few times in SanFrancisco.
The drive was delightful and felt really safe. It handled the SF terrain, traffic and mixed traffic like trams very well.
I wouldnt trust a self driving tesla ( or any camera only systems) though!
Re: Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
#4@dang .... do these comments seem organic to you? old accounts with almost zero karma going out of their way to use the same verbiage to compliment waymo 18 minutes after an article gets posted? .... dead internet at work.
Re: Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
#5I saw a Waymo in Seattle, today. If Waymo can get Seattle right, that gives me a lot of confidence that their stack is very capable of difficult road conditions. Note: I have not had the pleasure of riding in one yet, but from what my friend in SJ says, it’s very convenient and confidence-inspiring.
I have had the pleasure of riding a few times in SanFrancisco. The drive was delightful and felt really safe. It handled the SF terrain, traffic and mixed traffic like trams very well. I wouldnt trust a self driving tesla ( or any camera only systems) though!
I took the Waymo from San Jose airport to home on the peninsula. It took the 101 highway back for the most part, driving very conservatively at 65-55 mph, and in the right most lane. It still has a few quirks though. When there aren't any cars around it will speed up to 65 mph, but at on-ramps, it will slow down to 55 and then speed up once past. It will get stuck behind slow drivers being in the right most lane and patiently follow them a few car length behind them. On the plus side, the lidar stack field of view as shown on the internal display seems to see pretty far down the highway.
Re: Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
#6Oh hell yeah, we can finally stop the braindead attempts to make a safe self-driving car with just cameras.
Re: Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
#7> laser pulses
> phased-array
I'm not well versed into RF physics. I had the feeling that light-wave coherency in lasers had to be created at a single source (or amplified as it passes by). That's the first time I hear about phased-array lasers.
Can someone knowledgeable chime in on this?
Re: Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
#8Oh hell yeah, we can finally stop the braindead attempts to make a safe self-driving car with just cameras.
Is there anyone using only cameras except Tesla?
Re: Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
#9Interesting to see the cost curve drop ... this always changes the market.
I have been watching the sensor space for a while. Cheap LIDAR units could open up weird DIY uses and not just cars. ALSO regulatory and mapping integration will matter. I tried to work with public datasets and it's messy. The hardware is only one part! BUT it's exciting to see multiple vendors in the space. Competition might push vendors to refine the software stack as well as the hardware. HOWEVER I'm keeping an eye on how these systems handle edge cases in bad weather. I don't think we have seen enough data yet...
Re: Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
#10The mind salivates at the idea of sub-$100 and soon after sub-$10 Lidar. We could build spatial awareness into damn near everything. It'll be a cambrian explosion of autonomous robots.