2 ms·
I can't find good info on their ridiculous sensor suite. I read in the spring their lone early prototype had 22 'coffee cup sized' cameras on the vehicle. By m
by Fricken 10y ago
I can't find good info on their ridiculous sensor suite.
I read in the spring their lone early prototype had 22 'coffee cup sized' cameras on the vehicle. By my count there are six 8 or 16 channel Lidar pucks positioned around the car not counting the big 64 channel spinning velodyne on top. There are at least 2 radar units, and likely also ultrasonic proximity sensors. Who knows what else, or what kind of compute they're packing in the trunk to manage all that data.
Sensor overkill!
- chillingeffect 10y agolooking at the pictures of the cars, I'm starting to realize (fear) these images will be used for data collection as well! The cars are roving 360-degree cameras! Not that I'm paranoid personally, but these will give the owners a lot of information about peoples' movement patterns, a competitive advantage, an asset. For example, they could tell how many people wait at bus stops and sell that info to municipalities... They could look for trends in fashion on the sidewalks and sell it to clothing companies... Even if they don't achieve autonomy, just putting cameras any vehicle and re-selling the footage data-miners could be profitable.
- seanp2k2 10y agoI'm not looking forward to more business models built on the "let's collect data and sell it to people who hope to profit, probably through advertising" thing.