Man says CES lidar’s laser was so powerful it wrecked his camera

Re:Man says CES lidar’s laser was so powerful it wrecked his... by 01100011 on Friday January 11, 2019 @11:02PM (#18889554)

Is LIDAR just a stop-gap solution until we get better structure-from-motion type algorithms? Humans don't need lasers to drive. Binocular vision seems to suit the task just fine. Autonomous vehicles have the advantage that they can leverage hyperspectral imaging. Why the obsession with LIDAR?

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Re:Man says CES lidar’s laser was so powerful it wrecked his... by rjeli on Friday January 11, 2019 @11:21PM (#18889633)

Writing software for competent self driving is turning out to be really hard, and no one is succeeding. On the other hand, building better and cheaper lidar hardware is a well-defined problem that companies can pour money into. Their software still sucks, but everyone’s occupied with wrangling the $100k lidar.

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Re:Man says CES lidar’s laser was so powerful it wrecked his... by lsc on Saturday January 12, 2019 @05:23AM (#18890595)

I agree... but I also want to point out that it's totally possible that writing software to make self-driving cars work acceptably well might be easier if the software has better sensors than a human does, so it might actually be the best way to try to solve the problem.

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Re:Man says CES lidar’s laser was so powerful it wrecked his... by grenadier21 on Saturday January 12, 2019 @01:39AM (#18890060)

Could some rebel make things like fake road bumps that lidars can't pick up, but humans can?

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Re:Man says CES lidar’s laser was so powerful it wrecked his... by 01100011 on Saturday January 12, 2019 @02:48AM (#18890230)

Protecting AI against spoofing attacks is a pretty active area of research right now.

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Re:Man says CES lidar’s laser was so powerful it wrecked his... by paradoxparalax on Saturday January 12, 2019 @06:49AM (#18890810)

Protecting neural networks from adversarial attacks, i think you mean. Protecting good A.I. from spoofing attacks is exactly the same as protecting human drivers from spoofing attacks.

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Re:Man says CES lidar’s laser was so powerful it wrecked his... by brokenmachine on Sunday January 13, 2019 @07:41PM (#18899707)

Or the other way around - trick the lidar into thinking a road bump is there when there is no bump.

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