Re:The Pancake: A Less Annoying Way To Move Through Google S...
by lallysingh on Thursday June 04, 2009 @04:45PM
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Huh, I assumed it was just fairly-smart geometry estimation. How else could they compensate for the LIDAR hitting cars & people?
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Re:The Pancake: A Less Annoying Way To Move Through Google S...
by calambrac on Thursday June 04, 2009 @04:57PM
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They've made multiple passes by now, you would assume there aren't always going to be cars or people in the way. There could easily be some data scrubbing smarts in there, too, like knowing that a 3 story building doesn't suddenly jut out to the road in its lowest six feet (notice, for instance, in Brooklyn, the stoops aren't considered part of the building surface).