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Musk adamantly standing by improving radar despite it being so close to lidar
- detaro 10y agoBecause they create a point-cloud from it radar is suddenly "like lidar"? I guess techcrunch is "like a handwritten letter" then, since symbols from the alphabet are involved in the output?
- andymoe 10y agoThe lower end spinning lidar by velodyne, the VLP-16 - built and calibrated by hand, is $7999. The VLP-64 (64 lasers) used by Google's Lexus self driving cars is significantly more than a tesla model 3... so yeah, there are no commercially viable lidar systems and musk knows this full well.
- puzzle 10y agoGoogle has made its own lidars: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/12/04/the-75000-problem-for-self-driving-cars-is-going-away/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/12/0...