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Chris Urmson: Aurora CEO - Autonomous Driving

Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott

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Are You Using LiDAR?

Aurora bought a company that builds new kind of LiDAR technology, it's called frequency modulate continuous wave LiDAR. With this FMCW technology, what's happening is you're sending out a continuous wave and you watch that go out, hit the world, and come back. And now you interfere the outbound wave with the inbound wave and look at the face difference effectively. That tells you how far away the thing is that it's reflecting off of. So using Doppler to measure velocity instantaneously was really cool.

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