Tag: laser

  • Volvo to use Luminar’s lidar in production vehicles to unlock automated driving on highways

    Volvo to use Luminar’s lidar in production vehicles to unlock automated driving on highways

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    Volvo Cars will begin producing vehicles in 2022 that are built with lidar and a perception stack — technology produced by Silicon Valley startup Luminar the automaker can use to deploy an automated driving method for highways. For the time being, the lidar will be a part of a hardware bundle that consumers can add…

  • How Does Starlink Work Anyway?

    How Does Starlink Work Anyway?

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    No matter what you believe about Elon Musk, it’s tough to deny he chooses the dictum “There’s no such thing as bad publicity” to heart. By pitching sports cars to orbit to stainless-steel destroyers, there’so little that Mr. Musk can’t turn into a net favorable for at least one of his numerous ventures, not to…

  • CMU researchers use computer vision to see around corners

    CMU researchers use computer vision to see around corners

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    Future autonomous vehicle as well as other machine intelligence systems might not need line-of-sight to gather incredibly detailed picture info: New research from Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Toronto and University College London has invented a method for “watching around corners. ” The system employs special sources of lighting, combined with sensors and computer…