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| ('wired.com/story/anthony-levandowski-put-himself-center-industry/', 22)                | In the garage spot next to his ( the qualifiers were held at the Fontana Speedway in San Bernardino County ) was Dave Hall , who came to the race with a new invention , the first >>>lidar scanner created for an autonomous vehicle<<< .                         |
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| ('wired.com/story/apple-robot/', 9)                                                     | The robot ( it 's thus far nameless , in case you were wondering ) , developed by a company called Abundant Robotics , navigates the rows between apple trees using lidar , which >>>paints the world with lasers<<< , and images the fruits with machine vision . |
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| ('wired.com/story/ces-flying-cars-bell-beta-veoneer-self-driving-cars/', 9)             | Inspired by a WIRED video >>>that asked whether a competitor 's company could " see " Nerf gun bullets<<< , the AEye 's foam - and bull 's - eye-filled display sought to prove that its product could .                                                           |
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| ('wired.com/story/elon-musk-tesla-shareholders-meeting/', 35)                           | Musk also reaffirmed his distaste for lidar , the laser-shooting sensor most autonomous vehicle developers say is >>>key to building a safe , capable robocar<<< .                                                                                                 |
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| ('wired.com/story/future-of-transportation-kitty-hawk-self-flying-cars/', 29)           | The computer sets rotor pitch and speed while using GPS , an inertial measurement unit , >>>lidar laser scanning<<< , and radar to ascertain its position in space .                                                                                               |
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| ('wired.com/story/ground-penetrating-radar-self-driving-cars/', 10)                     | Most of their creators have settled on a combination of >>>lidar laser sensors<<< , radar , cameras , short-range ultrasonic sensors , and GPS , combined with on-board maps .                                                                                     |
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| ('wired.com/story/kodiak-self-driving-semi-trucks/', 20)                                | ( >>>Lidar is a laser sensor<<< most experts believe is crucial for self-driving cars to perceive the world .                                                                                                                                                      |
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| ('wired.com/story/laser-carrying-airplanes-uncover-massive-sprawling-maya-cities/', 14) | Based on the timing and the intensity of the return pulses , the detector can map the contours below — hills , ditches , and moldering ruins.The technology , >>>known as lidar<<< , is also being installed on self-driving cars to help them avoid collisions .  |
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| ('wired.com/story/lidar-archaeology-world-war-1-ypres-salient-belgium/', 32)            | Called lidar — >>>think sonar , but with lasers<<< — each beam of light bounces off the landscape below , and some of its photons return to the aircraft .                                                                                                         |
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| ('wired.com/story/luminar-lidar-self-driving-cars/', 22)                                | Lidar is >>>a fantastic sensor<<< — it 's more precise than radar and works in more conditions than cameras do — but it 's way too expensive .                                                                                                                     |
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| ('wired.com/story/sleeker-lidar-moves-volvo-closer-selling-self-driving-car/', 9)       | Because >>>theyrival cameras for detail<<< without the tricky matter of converting 2D pixels into 3D understanding , nearly all self-driving developers consider them a must-have tool .                                                                           |
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| ('wired.com/story/uber-self-driving-crash-explanation-lidar-sensors/', 30)              | That 's >>>where lidar comes in<<< .                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
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| ('wired.com/story/uber-waymo-lawsuit-settlement/', 1)                                   | In the trial 's fifth day , witnesses were set to testify as to how Waymo 's trade secrets had appeared in Uber >>>lidar designs<<< , the specialized sensor that helps self-driving cars see .                                                                    |
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| ('wired.com/story/uber-waymo-trial-settlement-self-driving-cars/', 4)                   | Waymo had alleged that when longtime Google engineer Anthony Levandowski resigned to start his own company , he took thousands of vital technical documents with him , including blueprints for the >>>lidar laser sensor<<< he had helped develop .               |
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| ('wired.com/story/volvo-self-driving-lidar-luminar/', 2)                                | Just about every player in the autonomous driving space agrees lidar — which builds a 3-D map of its surroundings by >>>firing millions of laser pulses every second<<< and measuring how long they take to bounce back — is a vital sensor .                      |
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| ('wired.com/story/wanna-see-around-corners-better-get-yourself-a-laser/', 52)           | Lasers , of course , are fundamental to all self-driving car technology : >>>Lidar<<< is behind the systems that both Uber and Alphabet 's Waymo are developing .                                                                                                  |
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| ('wired.com/story/waymo-uber-tesla-news-roundup/', 13)                                  | So while Aarian sat in court , I hopped on a hoverboard and >>>grabbed a Nerf gun to explain why lidar is so key<<< to the self-driving future .                                                                                                                   |
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| ('wired.com/story/why-are-parking-lots-so-tricky-for-self-driving-cars/', 28)           | Musk has argued that Tesla vehicles will one day be able to operate completely autonomously without expensive >>>laser sensors , or lidar<<< — so the cars come without it .                                                                                       |
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