Google Street View: A wolf in sheep’s clothing

Re:Google Street View: A wolf in sheep’s clothing by pilgrim689 on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @09:50AM (#4068599)

Google's self-driving car's main sensors are a 360 degree rotating laser and a radar, NOT a camera... unless Sebastian Thrun has been lying in his Udacity CS 373 course.

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Re:Google Street View: A wolf in sheep’s clothing by jc4p on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @09:50AM (#4068600)

Seeing how Sebastian is the head of the team working on it, I think it's safe to believe him on this one.

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Re:Google Street View: A wolf in sheep’s clothing by packetslave on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @01:20PM (#4069632)

I believe (speaking from the Udacity material) it also uses a stereo camera setup for localization (e.g. where the car is within a lane). Sebastian mentioned something about how they could deal with rain, but not something like snow that covers the visible references.

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