
The Infinite Retina
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David Hall had a building to fill. In the 1980s, the company he started, Velodyne, built subwoofers. Back in the day, they were the best subwoofers because they were the first to be digitally controlled. Audio fans lined up to get one since they made your audio system dramatically better. However, by around 2000, he realized that China had taken over manufacturing, so he sent his production to China since he couldn’t get parts anymore to build them within the United States, as he told us in an interview1.
Figure 1.8: Velodyne founder/former CEO, David Hall, shows off his LIDARs and talks about his career as an inventor of everything from new kinds of subwoofers to self-leveling boats. Photo credit: Rocky Barbanica.
That left him with an empty building, so he started looking for new things to do. He heard of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Grand Challenge, a prize competition for American autonomous vehicles, funded...
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