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I'm not a big hardware nerd, how do this and that $16,000 one from earlier this week compare? They're both roof top, spinning sensors it seems but at very dif

• mdorazio 7y ago
  LIDAR units have different effective ranges and, most importantly, number of points they capture. These cheap units generally have a small number of points. Looks like the Velabit has a range of about 100 meters, but FOV is 60 degrees horizontal by 10 degrees vertical, so you would need to mount several of these around a vehicle to get the equivalent coverage of a 360 degree unit. The press releases don't say how many points are in its point cloud, but I'm guessing it's probably 1/10th of a larger unit's.
  • robocat 7y ago
    To add to above comment: comparison of some different models for Ouster (a competitor): https://ouster.com/blog/128-channel-lidar-sensors-long-range-and-ultra-wide-view/ https://ouster.com/blog/128-channel-lidar-sensors-long-range... Discussion about above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21970796 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21970796