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Re:The Cancelled Comma One Would Have Embarrassed the Car In... by striking on Monday October 31, 2016 @06:25PM (#12841527)
LIDAR is still not that good for driving. It's better than cameras but it's still pretty bad, because its vision can be obscured by weather conditions. Radar is the gold standard for vision like this.

That being said, I thought they were using radar.

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Re:The Cancelled Comma One Would Have Embarrassed the Car In... by empraptor on Monday October 31, 2016 @06:49PM (#12841667)
EDIT: cameldrv pointed out in a reply to my original comment that Comma One uses its cameras and also taps into the vehicle's existing front facing radar.

I was thinking of something like Quanergy's solid state LiDAR. I know the planned $100 version is probably a few years out, but it seems promising. And there are other companies/institutions working on cheap LiDARs that work in bad weather.

Following link is of a talk Quanergy CEO gave at Stanford.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPqzo29Q9Wc

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