ARRI and RED make the most expensive cameras for digital cinematography. I saw a RED camera at some sort of exposition in sleepy Kunming a few years ago* and I was like dang. Anyway, if they are shooting outdoors and a LIDAR mobile gets 'the line', some Producer is gon na get all weepy. == *Also saw a Bentley parked outside there. Two firsts on one day. No idea if there was a connection.
......"Their phone's camera was toast, but only because it was close-up and pointed directly at the lidar sensor." Play stupid games..... Win stupid prizes. I predict that there will be "health concerns" from Lidactivists soon.....
Just editorial: what ever happened to explaining acronyms, especially newly-minted, obscure ones, at least once in the article. Looked it up: Lidar, also LIDAR, an acronym of "light detection and ranging" or "laser imaging, detection, and ranging") is a method for determining ranges by targeting an object or a surface with a laser and measuring the time for the reflected light to return to the receiver. Lidar may operate in a fixed direction (e.g., vertical) or it may scan multiple directions, in a special combination of 3-D scanning and laser scanning. Lidar - Wikipedia
Jalopnik was sold recently. Not sure if their editing has been changed Way back, I worked as a "newsman." Before a story was printed, usually an asst. city editor read it. Then, many times a city editor, then a copy editor and then a layout editor. The goal was to have at least two editors before going to print. Remember yelling at a reporter. She wrote a wildfire was 30 percent contained. I asked her if she knew what that meant. She did not. Asked her if the reader would know. She fixed the story after digging around to find out what containment and control meant for fires. I could had fixed it myself and sent it on it's way, but... BTW. Wayback, Nevada used to have highway signs proclaimed speed checked by LIDAR. I had no idea what that meant until I looked up Lidar when I read the story yesterday.
When was the last time you saw an article define radar? Lidar has been around for decades now, and has been part of the autonomous car discussion to when Waymo was still Google self driving car project. The majority of readers of that article already know what it is.
Curious, I did a search on the words Waymo and lidar in same news story in past year. Sixty news stories had both words in same story. Of those, six publications were ones I would reasonably say the average person would recognize, Fortune, Business Week, etc. but are not what you would call general circulation. Only three general circulation, such as San Francisco Chronicle, Providence Journal. Finally, we have eight folks over for holiday BBQ. Only one, other than myself had heard of Lidar, and he is a 35-year-old mechanical engineer who designs massive earth moving equipment. So, for what it is worth, I don't think most average folk know -- or really care...as long as we know what dinner means. But, I think the real point is the continual loss of quality news coverage, starting with the most basic, lack of basic information in stories.
Props to you, sir! Way back.....that was a noble profession!! Not because of the gender-specific title, but because REAL newsies used to take pride in their very important profession! They used to hit hard, but they used to hit FAIR. @ Lidar. Google is 26 years old, folks! WADR to @Mendel Leisk: NOBODY wonders about Sonar.....or Radar today, because......they're words!.
WADR, lessee, what's that... Oh... In another century, there was a local record place called A&B Sound. One time me and the missus happened to be driving past it, and she came out with "Why don't we pull into A&B and get soome CD's". I lost it.
Gee, thanks. Reporting is a tough profession and pay was rotten until you made it to the big leagues. But most of us wanted nothing more than to put forth the facts. Saw the way the news business was going and got out in the late '80s and glad of it. Hate to see what it has become...
