Automotive Lidar Trends

Real-time 3D lidar is poised to be the third leg of the trifecta of sensor technologies enabling both advanced driver-assistance (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles. The other two pieces are cameras and radar. David Hall, CEO of Velodyne Lidar, Inc., invented the HDL-64 Solid-State Hybrid real-time 3D lidar sensor in 2007 and Velodyne has continued to develop lidar systems for the automotive market ever since. I discussed the background of the technology and its current and future prospects with CTO, Anand Gopalan.