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that they don't have enough sensors and have significant blind spots:
Cow droppings.. I would argue that one does not need LIDAR.. and there us a lot of work on new approaches to LIDAR...the article clearly has no idea of the current state of R&D .. there might have been some serious problems with the Uber car but having only one LIDAR on the roof is probably not one of them...
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and yet...
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Did you actually read the article?
Uber referred questions on the blind spot to Velodyne. Velodyne acknowledged that with the rooftop lidar there is a roughly three meter blind spot around a vehicle, saying that more sensors are necessary.
“If you’re going to avoid pedestrians, you’re going to need to have a side lidar to see those pedestrians and avoid them, especially at night,” Marta Hall, president and chief business development officer at Velodyne, told Reuters.
Velodyne made the sensor on top of the Uber Volvo and are saying themselves that to avoid pedestrians at night you need side lidar.
To risk mixing metaphors if you think it's bullshit it's bullshit straight from the horses mouth.
hippy
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I was on holiday last week so missed this. It's looking like the problem with the Uber self-driving car involved in the fatal incident - and in fact all Uber self-driving cars - is that they don't have enough sensors and have significant blind spots:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-selfdriving-sensors-insight/ubers-use-of-fewer-safety-sensors-prompts-questions-after-arizona-crash-idUSKBN1H337Q
So the whole 'were the sensors working properly' conversation is a bit of a red herring if however well they were working they wouldn't have spotted the pedestrian/cyclist anyway.