Self-driving cars need to implement efficient, effective, and accurate detection systems to provide a safe and reliable experience to its users. To this end, an international research team has now ...

Robots and autonomous vehicles can use 3D point clouds from LiDAR sensors and camera images to perform 3D object detection. However, current techniques that combine both types of data struggle to ...

Five years ago, Eric Aguilar was fed up. He had worked on lidar and other sensors for years at Tesla and Google X, but the technology always seemed too expensive and, more importantly, unreliable. He ...

If you haven’t lived underneath a rock for the past decade or so, you will have seen a lot of arguing in the media by prominent figures and their respective fanbases about what the right sensor ...

Due to its ability to scan and detect objects in the environment, as well as track their movement, LiDAR technology has great potential in automotive applications. The most relevant applications for ...

Researchers have engineered the ultimate nemesis of self-driving cars: mirror-adorned traffic cones. In a series of tests highlighted by The Register, a team from France and Germany showed that their ...

Why LiDAR placement is essential for developing safe self-driving cars. How automakers need to incorporate LiDAR placement into the design phase of vehicle development. LiDAR is a three-dimensional ...