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Velodyne LiDAR sensors are 200m or less, it seems, so I highly doubt Waymo has a 500m sensor in this form factor. Glancing at articles from when this Waymo pro
by coder543 6y ago
Velodyne LiDAR sensors are 200m or less, it seems, so I highly doubt Waymo has a 500m sensor in this form factor.
Glancing at articles from when this Waymo product was originally announced a couple of years ago, I saw some equally unhelpful speculation of “no more than 50 feet.”
If it was 500 meters, surely they would say, because that would be really good.
- verdverm 6y agoTheir forward facing on vehicle 5th gen claim is 500m, from about 1 year ago. The lack of number on the webpage does leave one to speculate based on other sources...
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- fastball 6y agoYep but the forward facing on Waymo vehicles is not the Laser Bear Honeycomb.
- ra7 6y agoThey claim >300m range: https://blog.waymo.com/2020/03/introducing-5th-generation-waymo-driver.html https://blog.waymo.com/2020/03/introducing-5th-generation-wa...
- porphyra 6y agoThe ones for sale are the small perimeter lidars that have very short range, not the 300 m unit.