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The inventor, David Hall, is an interesting guy. He started off making subwoofers and among other things he invented the 3D Lidar system used by the winners (an
by wiwiw 12y ago
The inventor, David Hall, is an interesting guy. He started off making subwoofers and among other things he invented the 3D Lidar system used by the winners (and second place) of the DARPA Urban Challenge. Also used in the Google self driving car.
- pontifier 12y agoI met him at the first DARPA challenge. Before he did the Lidar thing he had an interesting realtime stereo vision system powered by DSPs. I'd say he's a modern day Edison in his tenacity when it comes to solving problems.
- rasz_pl 12y agoEdison? you mean he has a team of engineers that invent stuff for him? and all he does is slap his name on their creations?
- ak217 12y agoWow. I never realized Velodyne (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velodyne_Inc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velodyne_Inc.) was a family-owned, 90-employee operation. Somehow I assumed the world's most sophisticated lidar maker would be a bigger company.