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Velodyne LiDAR sponsored the SmartDrivingCar Summit held on May 16 - 17 in Princeton, N.J., bringing together buyers, sellers and facilitators of autonomous cars, trucks and buses. At the conference, the company discussed and demonstrated LiDAR technology that is primed to lead the autonomous revolution to highway speeds.
The SmartDrivingCar Summit looked at the economic forces behind deployment and commercialization of autonomous vehicle technology – supply, demand and public oversight. The event was co-chaired by Professor Alain Kornhauser of Princeton University and featured a mix of academic, industry and government speakers with each session packed with multiple experts.
The summit featured a live automotive demonstration of the Velodyne VLS-128, which is on its way to become the new standard for fully autonomous cars and cars equipped with advanced safety features since its introduction in November 2017. The success of the Velodyne VLS-128 is due in part to the unchallenged quantity of data it produces in real time at top speed. It has up to 0.1 degree image resolution at up to 300-meter range.
At the summit, John Eggert, Director, Automotive Sales & Marketing at Velodyne LiDAR spoke at two conference sessions. During his presentations, he reviewed the advances in the evolving state-of-the-art in LiDAR technology, and also discussed near-term technological opportunities and challenges in autonomous vehicle technology.
