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Imaging Radar vs. Classic Automotive Radar: What Actually Changes at the System Level
The datasheet difference between imaging radar and classic automotive radar fits on one line. Angular resolution improves several-fold (approaching an order of magnitude against the coarsest legacy sensors), and you gain a…
Robotaxi L4 vs. Consumer L2+: Two Industries Pretending to Be One
The public conversation about autonomous driving treats robotaxis and consumer driver-assistance as points on one ladder, as if a hands-free highway system is simply a robotaxi that hasn't finished climbing. I've worked…
Why the Cheapest Sensor Is Rarely the Cheapest Sensor: BOM Decisions That Haunt Programs
Every ADAS program eventually has the meeting where a sensor decision comes down to a spreadsheet, and the spreadsheet has one column everyone can read: piece price. I've sat in that meeting…
It's His Job
Roy Keane never celebrates the ordinary, out of standards. Engineers do the same, out of self-doubt. The same three words, and the difference between them takes a career to see.
Why Radar Keeps Surviving the "Cameras Are Enough" Argument, and Where the Argument Has a Point
Every so often, someone with a large platform declares automotive radar obsolete, and every time the industry quietly keeps putting radar on cars. The camera-only argument is not stupid, it is made…
15 Years in ADAS and AV: What I'd Tell an Engineer Entering Now
The industry will hire you for your algorithms. It will keep you, promote you, and eventually trust you with a program because of your systems judgment. Nobody told me that in 2011,…