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I wonder about the assumption in that MacRumors article that it's a self-driving car, given this article about Apple building their own Maps data set: https://t

by jurip 8y ago

I wonder about the assumption in that MacRumors article that it's a self-driving car, given this article about Apple building their own Maps data set: https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/29/apple-is-rebuilding-maps-from-the-ground-up/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/29/apple-is-rebuilding-maps-f... Given that the MacRumors article says that the Lexus was parked, it might be a human-driven car for gathering maps data?

trhway 8y ago
the quick way to tell between self-driving and mapping car sensor suites - density of the point cloud it collects, ie. type/number of sensors with the self-driving is unnecessary dense for mapping and their directionality - the self-driving is more forward looking as well as immediate vicinity of the car while the mapping is sideways and doesn't care about the immediate vicinity. I'd speculate that Apple, historically being weaker when it comes to [higher level] software, seems to have issues with building of dynamic scene perception from the big can Velodyne stream and are trying to solve it "hardware way" by structuring the perception data in more time/space consistent way inside limited sectors/planes.