Lidar Is a Crutch
Good discussion. The arguments that because humans can do it with two eyes any approach using more than cameras is wrong frustrate me to no end. Technology and engineering isn&#x27;t about imagining the minimum theoretical requirements, it&#x27;s about building stuff that works with what is available. People can navigate cross country without gps, but it&#x27;s not wrong to put gps in cars.<p>It seems like the teams working on autonomous vehicles need all the crutches they can get, and it seems like a good idea to lean on superhuman sensors to make up for subhuman &quot;cognition.&quot;<p>I do wish, though, that people would stop equating all radar with the adaptive cruise control style radar - imaging radars are a thing that exist, and can be competitive with lidar.