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PaulK
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Message 103 of 142 (830427)
03-29-2018 2:45 AM


Interesting developments
From The Register - not a top source, but usually not too bad.
Apparently the Uber car had only a single-top mounted LIDAR sensor, which creates a blind spot low and close to the vehicle. Most self-driving vehicles have 5 or 6 including side-mounted sensors.
A spokesman for Aptiv, which supplies other sensors and software, claimed that their systems were disabled on the car in question.
Looks like a case of Uber being Uber and cutting too many corners.

  
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Message 121 of 142 (845123)
12-12-2018 11:43 AM
Reply to: Message 113 by Percy
12-12-2018 9:10 AM


Re: Blowing own horn again...
Uber is much worse - at least with cars. Ars Technica
A car was damaged nearly every other day in February," Miller said. "We shouldn’t be hitting things every 15,000 miles."
(The Computer Science department at Uni had a DEC 20 - I used it quite a bit)

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