Lidar
Discussed as a technology that Tesla does not use for its FSD system, contrasting it with Waymo.
Common Themes
Videos Mentioning Lidar
Joan Lasenby on Applications of Geometric Algebra in Engineering
Y Combinator
A remote sensing method that uses light in the form of a pulsed laser to measure variable distances to the Earth.
Mathematical Approaches to Image Processing with Carola Schönlieb
Y Combinator
A remote sensing technology that uses laser pulses to measure distances and create 3D models of landscapes and objects, used in forest monitoring.
Dmitri Dolgov: Waymo and the Future of Self-Driving Cars | Lex Fridman Podcast #147
Lex Fridman
A key sensing component designed and built in-house by Waymo, used for perception in autonomous vehicles. It is active and effective even in complete darkness, complementing cameras and radars.
Colin Angle: iRobot CEO | Lex Fridman Podcast #39
Lex Fridman
A remote sensing method that uses light in the form of a pulsed laser to measure distances. Discussed as a sensor technology for autonomous vehicles, with Elon Musk favoring camera-only approaches.
Vijay Kumar: Flying Robots | Lex Fridman Podcast #37
Lex Fridman
A remote sensing method that uses light in the form of a pulsed laser to measure variable distances to the Earth. Used in dark and dusty environments where computer vision struggles.
Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering | Lex Fridman Podcast #81
Lex Fridman
A remote sensing method used by autonomous vehicles to measure distance by illuminating the target with laser light, recommended by Anca Dragan for safety reasons.
Efficient Computing for Deep Learning, Robotics, and AI (Vivienne Sze) | MIT Deep Learning Series
Lex Fridman
A sensor technology mentioned in the context of autonomous navigation and robot exploration, compared to time-of-flight sensors.
Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education | Lex Fridman Podcast #59
Lex Fridman
A sensor technology for autonomous vehicles that Elon Musk has called a crutch, contrasting with Tesla's camera-centric approach.
Sterling Anderson, Co-Founder, Aurora - MIT Self-Driving Cars
Lex Fridman
A sensing technology used in self-driving cars, whose cost and effectiveness are discussed in relation to Aurora's multi-modal approach.
Trump Rally or Bessent Put? Elon Back at Tesla, Google's Gemini Problem, China's Thorium Discovery
All-In Podcast
Discussed as a technology that Tesla does not use for its FSD system, contrasting it with Waymo.
Diego Saez Gil - How Pachama Uses Tech to Solve Climate Change
Y Combinator
A remote sensing technology used by Pachama to collect data points and estimate biomass and carbon content in forests.
Bee AI: The Wearable Ambient Agent
Latent Space
Mentioned in the context of sensors for autonomous vehicles.
MIT 6.S094: Convolutional Neural Networks for End-to-End Learning of the Driving Task
Lex Fridman
A sensor technology used in self-driving cars to provide 3D point clouds of the external environment, offering strong ground truth for object detection and localization. It has limitations in rain and snow.
MIT 6.S094: Introduction to Deep Learning and Self-Driving Cars
Lex Fridman
A range sensor that provides 3D point cloud information about objects in the external environment, which can be spoofed in adversarial attacks against self-driving cars.
Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #333
Lex Fridman
A sensor debated in autonomous driving, viewed by Karpathy as a 'crutch' and an unnecessary cost that creates bloat and distraction.
Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #61
Lex Fridman
A remote sensing method used in autonomous vehicles for obstacle detection, but considered too expensive and a 'crutch' by Elon Musk, who favors vision-only systems.