Waymo Fuses Camera, LiDAR, and Radar Encoders Jointly Rather Than Comparing Outputs
“It's not like, you know, we estimate, you know, what's happening with the world through cameras, and through radars, and through lighters, and then we compare. No, they're like, there's an encoder for camera, there's an encoder for lighters, and they all go in…”
Luckey: Camouflage from human eyes is easier than hiding from synthetic sensors
“It's a lot harder to hide from synthetic systems. So if you're talking about like, radars, or lidars, or, there's a large number of ways that you can see the world that are not just visible spectrum imaging. People are actually relatively easy to fix.”
Dolgov: Camera-only systems are not safe enough for full autonomy
“Same, same for us. We can, you know, take something away and we can answer that question. Like, is the performance, can you still drive? Of course. Is the performance good enough? For full autonomy, and is it good enough for our bar of readiness and safety? An…”
Shapiro: Autonomous vehicle safety requires combining cameras, radar, and lidar
“This diversity and redundancy is really how you get higher levels of safety. So cameras are great, but they don't work in all conditions, and so when you combine radar, when you combine lidar, you have the strengths of many different types of sensors, and they…”
Schimpf: Military sensing is physically limited to five core sensor types
“There's still physics limits to all of this, and you only have like five types of sensors. You're really only going to be talking about. It turns out, you know, you're going to take a picture of something. It's either going to be thermal or it's going to be, y…”