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Autonomous Vehicles: Lidar and GPS Alone aren’t Robust Enough

By Dick Weisinger

Safe autonomous driving, much like humans and our five senses, will likely only be fully realized with multiple types of sensors. Lidar has been the standard for most research and development with autonomous vehicles. Lidar is a technique that uses

Lidar: Location Sensing to Become Ubiquitous as Costs Plummet

By Dick Weisinger

Lidar, a kind of light-based radar, is a method that uses lasers to measure distances. Lidar pulses can span across a large range and collect 3D digital position data about a scanned target. Lidar is similar to the echo-location techniques

Radar Interference: Interference Issues Threaten Widespread Use of Lidar for Self-Driving Vehicles

By Dick Weisinger

As car makers and would-be car makers increasingly try to build self-driving cars, the problem of radar interference is beginning to show up. Car makers are incorporating radar systems based on Lidar to sense the road environment that the car