Trying to navigate the roads during rainy and snowy conditions can be very difficult at times. Autonomous vehicles face the same problem, made far worse by their inability to just take a wild guess and accept whatever consequences are in store. Right now they rely on three means of location: GPS, lidar, and camera image processing.
WaveSense thinks they have the missing piece of this puzzle, courtesy of some MIT-developed military tech to which they have the exclusive rights. The idea behind WaveSense is simple enough in concept: creating a “fingerprint” using ground-penetrating radar, and then compare the fingerprint to a database and figure out exactly where you are.
Read the article at Road & Track.
