Autonomous Vehicles Assignment

 

Read the article located here and answer the questions.

 

1. The Doppler effect is a physics term you may or may not know.  If you do not know what it means, look it up.  Explain what is meant by the term Doppler Effect and how it is used in autonomous vehicles.

 

2. Engineers often must consider relative advantages/disadvantages of different competing or complementary systems.  Explain how this applies to self-driving cars.

What are the relative advantages and disadvantages of lidar and radar?

 

3. List any new vocabulary (the word and its meaning) you learned from this article