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https://blog.aboutamazon.com/transportation/a-drone-program-taking-flight https://blog.aboutamazon.com/transportation/a-drone-program-... Lots of talk about vi
by martythemaniak 7y ago
https://blog.aboutamazon.com/transportation/a-drone-program-taking-flight https://blog.aboutamazon.com/transportation/a-drone-program-...
Lots of talk about vision, no mention of LIDAR. Computer vision is getting better faster than LIDAR is getting cheaper, expect a lidar-less future.
- alehul 7y agoLIDAR provides an additional layer of safety that seems well worth the marginal cost for those producing self-driving cars, where human lives are at stake, even if not applicable to delivery drones. Do you believe that the future is LIDAR-less, or that the delivery drone future is LIDAR-less?
- martythemaniak 7y agoDid you see the picture of this drone? Do you think it's incapable of killing someone?
- CardenB 7y agoLidar is difficult in drones. That doesn't rule out Lidar as an important sensor in other domains. Additionally, redundancy is good. Computer vision will not be good enough to make Lidar useless for some time.