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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by firesteelrain on Sunday June 04, 2023 @03:55AM (#36183847)
Why is LiDAR such a big deal? Our Honda Odyssey has had LiDAR for Lane Assist, Brake Assist, etc for a while.

The sensor costs $125 on eBay.

Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by lnsru on Sunday June 04, 2023 @04:09AM (#36183903)
What does it cost in official dealership? 1250$? Parts from scraped best case or stolen worst case cars are not an indicator.
Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by shakow on Sunday June 04, 2023 @04:40AM (#36184059)
Prices in official dealership are not really an indicator either.
Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by timidiceball on Sunday June 04, 2023 @05:08AM (#36184175)
Your odyssey has a radar component not a LiDAR sensor. (Big gap in resolution)
Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by firesteelrain on Sunday June 04, 2023 @07:17AM (#36184707)
Okay for some reason when I Googled the part is listed as lidar sensor.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/175646053526?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid...

Honda says it’s millimeter wave.

https://techinfo.honda.com/rjanisis/pubs/web/docs/AJA15434.P...

Our Odyssey uses a combination of multiple radar sensors and a camera to provide excellent sensing. From what I have read, millimeter wave is best of both worlds between LiDAR and Radar.

https://www.engineering.com/ElectronicsDesign/ElectronicsDes...

LiDAR doesn’t seem practical.

Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by TaylorAlexander on Monday June 05, 2023 @01:55AM (#36192873)
The last link reads mostly like a press release from the manufacturer. I suspect there are reasons why it is inferior to LiDAR not listed on that page. LiDAR traditionally can be kind of impractical but solid state LiDAR will help a lot with that.