[cameldrv]

I noticed that too. My understanding of what he said was most AV companies were using the lidar purely for localization (on an HD map) and not for object detection. This was the opposite of my understanding, so his statement was very confusing to me. Anyone able to comment?

[Symmetry]

You can absolutely use lidar pointclouds for object detection. It can be hard with low resolution lidar in a cluttered environment, though.

[cameldrv]

Of course you can use it. The claim Hotz seemed to be making was that the major AV stacks weren't doing it, which would have been major news to me.