Photonics West 2021: Making sense of sensors for self-drive
12 Mar 2021
From Ford Burkhart
Development lab at Lyft Level 5 in Sunnyvale, California.The autonomous vehicle (AV) industry â at companies like Lyft, Waymo and Argo â is not actually looking for a super-sensor. Leading experts from these companies agreed in a Photonics West Digital Forum panel on Thursday that the key is how an autoâs many cameras, lidar and radar systems can cooperate to fill in each otherâs blind spots.
Whatâs vital, said Michel Laverne, of Argo AI, is âfusing together their distinct views of the worldâ to move to at least Level 4 â known as high driving automation (mostly with no human intervention). Little was said about the futuristic Level 5, smart cars potentially without even steering wheels