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To: discostu

Curmudgeon?

I am a civil engineer who deals with road construction and traffic issues on a daily basis.

I am also a car enthusiast, who takes them apart and puts them back together.

The company I work for has also been on the leading edge of LIDAR technology...which just two weeks ago pitched a large scale demonstration project of a real world application for mobile LIDAR. I have also used LIDAR on my own projects.

In other words, I have a basic understanding of how this stuff works. How much the equipment costs. Weather limitations, recalibration requirements, data usage, computing requirements, durability, air conditioning requirements.

And, I know how roads are built, how they are funded how they are repaired...and how that is funded...and basically how problematic it would be to keep roads suitable for self driving cars.

You can call me a curmudgeon...but perhaps you are buying into the hype too much.

I ask you once again...since you stated “this IS happening”, then give just one example. And when you can’t find one, perhaps instead of calling me names, consider what it means when you can’t - this IS NOT happening.


82 posted on 03/16/2017 3:39:33 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: lacrew

Yeah curmudgeon, because you’re also pointlessly rude about the whole thing, with lots of chest thumping, lots of condescension. and a lot of not bothering to open your eyes to the bigger picture.

LIDAR isn’t the answer most of the companies are working on. With good reason, and you listed many of them out. It’s simply the wrong solution to the problem.

I gave you an example, and you insulted it because you don’t want to understand it. The simple fact is you’re in 2005 looking at a Blackberry and insisting smartphones aren’t going to happen. Self driving cars aren’t at iPhone yet, but it’s coming, we can tell, because it IS happening. Not your goalposts, but we’ve discussed this before, I know your goalposts, they move. Because you’re a curmudgeon and can’t stand the idea that reality is proving you wrong.


86 posted on 03/16/2017 3:45:48 PM PDT by discostu (There are times when all the world's asleep, the questions run too deep, for such a simple man.)
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