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Re:Driverless cars are stuck in a jam by Recurecur on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @09:57AM (#21387195)
>Lidar has no problem with snow, only when its _snowing_. However, if visibility is reduced, a pure visual approach is going to be even worse.

Good thing Teslas have radar...which penetrates falling snow.

>Musk made a mistake, and he's spending billions to prove that he never made it.

People drive fairly well with only visual sensors (eyes). That is proof of concept. Lidar seems like overkill.

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Re:Driverless cars are stuck in a jam by catalogia on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @12:41PM (#21389146)
That radar is utterly worthless for this sort of application, it has awful angular resolution. It can't tell the difference between a building next to the street and a truck parked in the middle of the street.
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