At the Las Vegas Electronics Show, Luminar, a manufacturer of lidar (laser sensing) devices, is conducting a live trial to demonstrate its “superiority of technology.”
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Autonomous driving through cameras to control cars for an advanced technological future
Tesla is betting on cameras to control future self-driving cars, raising the suspicion of some specialists in control systems that rely on radar and remote sensing technology.
At the Las Vegas Electronics Show, Luminar, a manufacturer of lidar (laser sensing) devices, conducted a live demonstration to demonstrate the “superiority of its technology”, launching two cars into a parking lot at about 50 kilometers per hour before displaying a baby doll in front of them.
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The lidar-equipped car stopped in time, while another Tesla car hit the dummy, while an outside expert did not verify the conditions of the Luminar experiment.
“We didn’t want to show the experience in ‘Power Point’ or in a nice video,” Luminar product development officer Aaron Jefferson told AFP.
He added that “the cameras can be very effective when driving in ideal conditions during a sunny day,” adding that “the problem lies in the unusual situations” facing the car, which are unclear turns, fog, plastic bags, light at sunset, and to What is there.
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Most manufacturers of autonomous systems have chosen to combine cameras powered by radar and/or lidar, which are instruments that allow distance measurements via radio waves or lasers.
Last year, Tesla abandoned radars and relied solely on cameras in its driving control system.
Elon Musk considers that with technological progress, an “artificial brain” that works with cameras can match the capabilities of the human brain, which analyzes its surroundings through my eyes.
“This strategy makes perfect sense,” said Cornell University professor Kellyanne Weinberger, who has worked on object sensing in autonomous driving systems.
Officially, Tesla currently only offers ride control systems, but it hopes to reach a fully autonomous driving system.
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