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IS ELON MUSK RIGHT?
IEEE SA WEBINAR SERIES 11 . 05 . 2019
Apar Rajendran
Are LiDARs a Crutch ?
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/22/anyone-relying-on-lidar-is-doomed-elon-musk-says/
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THE SPOKEN
• Tesla’s First Autonomous Day | April 22nd 2019
• “LiDAR is a fool’s errand… Anyone relying on LiDAR is doomed. They are expensive sensors that are unnecessary. It’s like having a whole bunch of expensive appendices. Like, one appendix is bad, well now you have a whole bunch of them, it’s ridiculous, you’ll see.”
~ Elon Musk
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WHY SO SERIOUS?
And more…
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SENSORY SYSTEM
Camera LiDAR Radar
Day time Night time Unfavorable weather
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TECHNOLOGY PLAYERS
https://medium.com/swlh/the-race-to-fully-autonomous-cars-8212ff73aadhttps://www.cbinsights.com/research/autonomous-driverless-vehicles-corporations-list/
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LIDAR POWERED
https://www.wired.com/story/lidar-self-driving-cars-luminar-video/
Light Detection And Ranging
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LIDAR - HOW IT WORKS
https://www.designnews.com/electronics-test/bmw-will-use-innoviz-lidar-its-autonomous-vehicles/117710752958701
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LIDAR POWERED - HIGHLIGHTS
LiDAR
Laser
Distance
Direct
Visibility
Expensive
Low Adoption
Insufficient data
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JOURNEY - LIDAR
Cost Accuracy
64 Laser LiDAR -> $ 75,000
16 Laser LiDAR -> $ 7,999
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/01/driving-around-without-a-driver-lidar-technology-explained/
Work in progress…1. MEMS2. Phased Array3. Flash LiDAR
Highest (as we speak)
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/08/elon-musk-says-driverless-cars-dont-need-lidar-experts-arent-so-sure/
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CAMERA POWERED
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/04/15/how-does-a-self-driving-car-see/
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CAMERA – HOW IT WORKS
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/01/05/eyes-on-the-road-how-autonomous-cars-understand-what-theyre-seeing/
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax
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CAMERA POWERED
Camera
Image
Parallax
Derived
Data
Cost Effectiveness
High Adoptability
Sufficient data
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JOURNEY - CAMERA
Cost Accuracy
Single Stereo Camera -> $ 200
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/01/driving-around-without-a-driver-lidar-technology-explained/
Single Mono Range -> $150 30 %
66 %
Work in progress…
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/08/elon-musk-says-driverless-cars-dont-need-lidar-experts-arent-so-sure/
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LIDAR VS. CAMERA
Cost Effectiveness
Accuracy
LiDAR
Camera
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X
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LIDAR VS. CAMERA - PERFORMANCE
Solid State LiDAR
LiDAR Performance
Spinning LiDAR
Abundance of data from fleet
Camera Performance
Data from test drives
High Weather Resistance
Only under convenient weather
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CRUTCH OR COMPLEMENT ?
Technology
Durability Reliability Cost Effective Accuracy Dependency
Crutch / Complimentary
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CONCLUSION
• Low Durability
• High Reliability
• High Cost
• High Accuracy
• High Dependency
Crutch for now !
• High Durability
• High Reliability
• Low Cost
• High Accuracy
• Low Dependency
Complimentary forever !
Time
LiDAR
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NEXT STEPS
• Autonomous vehicles require a rapid, accurate and complete perception system
• iDAR (Intelligent Detection and Ranging) offers a robotic perception system that is more reliable than human vision.
• Existing 2D image processors and 2D to 3D image conversion concepts have serious flaws that can only be addressed with massive computing power and more importantly — algorithms that have not been invented which makes this approach too costly, inefficient and cumbersome to achieve Level 5 autonomous driving at commercial scale.
• Integrating cameras, agile LiDAR, and AI equals a perception system that is better than the sum of its parts. It surpasses both the human eye and camera alone, which is required since we don’t have the sophistication of the human brain yet replicated.
https://www.aeye.ai/idar/
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QUESTIONS…?
THANK YOU
https://www.linkedin.com/in/apar-rajendran/