LIght Detection And Ranging, LIDAR, is a technology used to create an exact tridimensional map of the environment. It is not a new technology, it started in the 1960ies as a way to map the Earth surface from an airplane. The airplane was equipped with a laser generating pulses and …
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Detecting what’s around is the first crucial task of an autonomous vehicle (the second one is to understand what’s there and the third is foreseeing the likely movements in order to take appropriate decisions). By far the best technology for detecting (still and moving) ambient objects is LIDAR (LIght Detection …
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Self driving cars will reach the mass market in the next decade, although we can expect a real take up the the following decades. It will most likely be an electric car, although self driving and electric cars are independent evolutions that will just happen, because of time frame, to …
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