{"id":89855,"date":"2019-04-23T11:43:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/new-way-to-see-objects-accelerates-future-of-self-driving-cars"},"modified":"2019-04-23T11:43:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:43:11","slug":"new-way-to-see-objects-accelerates-future-of-self-driving-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/new-way-to-see-objects-accelerates-future-of-self-driving-cars","title":{"rendered":"New way to \u2018see\u2019 objects accelerates future of self-driving cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-way-to-see-objects-accelerates-future-of-self-driving-cars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The laser sensors currently used to detect 3D objects in the paths of autonomous cars are bulky, ugly, expensive, energy-inefficient \u2013 and highly accurate.<\/p>\n<p>These Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensors are affixed to cars\u2019 roofs, where they increase wind drag, a particular disadvantage for <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electric+cars\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electric cars<\/a>. They can add around $10,000 to a car\u2019s cost. But despite their drawbacks, most experts have considered LiDAR sensors the only plausible way for <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/self-driving+vehicles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">self-driving vehicles<\/a> to safely perceive pedestrians, cars and other hazards on the road.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Cornell researchers have discovered that a simpler method, using two inexpensive cameras on either side of the windshield, can detect objects with nearly LiDAR\u2019s accuracy and at a fraction of the cost. The researchers found that analyzing the captured images from a bird\u2019s-eye view rather than the more traditional frontal view more than tripled their accuracy, making <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/stereo+camera\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">stereo camera<\/a> a viable and low-cost alternative to LiDAR.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2019-04-future-self-driving-cars.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The laser sensors currently used to detect 3D objects in the paths of autonomous cars are bulky, ugly, expensive, energy-inefficient \u2013 and highly accurate. These Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensors are affixed to cars\u2019 roofs, where they increase wind drag, a particular disadvantage for electric cars. They can add around $10,000 to a car\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}