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I think this is why cheap solid-state LIDAR is critical to this goal. It’s currently too expensive and bulky for this kind of use, but if you can embed a few do
by exelius 9y ago
I think this is why cheap solid-state LIDAR is critical to this goal. It’s currently too expensive and bulky for this kind of use, but if you can embed a few dozen LIDAR units in a car for under $1000, you get some really accurate telemetry that’s not affected by adverse weather. Cheap solid state LIDAR is gonna be the invention that powers the next industrial boom.
- nerfhammer 9y agoLIDAR doesn't really work in rain and snow. That's part of why this is a hard problem.
- exelius 9y agoAgreed, but multiplexed solid state LIDAR will up to a 99% use case for vision capture. What’s out there now solves maybe 80%. Its a hard problem being solved by incremental improvements — first you gotta make LIDAR work in concept (which is basically done), then you have to shrink it, then commercialize it, then commoditize it. So it’ll take a decade or more to realize, but that’s the ultimate thing I think we need to get these things into the mainstream.