HD Maps for Self Driving Cars - Podcast with David Rumsey and Wei Luo
The need for ultra high definition maps for self driving cars is creating a new kind of map - the High Definition or HD map - with resolution down to a few centimeters. This is a new version of the one to one map anticipated by Jorge Luis Borges in his 1946 short story "On Exactitude in Science." Listen to a podcast with David Rumsey and Wei Luo, COO of DeepMap, as they explore how HD maps will change our ideas of what a map is and can be, as well as how past maps have anticipated these coming changes in cartography. By making a map of our world that is literally 1:1 scale, HD maps explode the map to encompass everything around us - and we will experience it by moving in it and through it in our self driving cars.
Below is a DeepMap's conceptual visualization of how HD maps could work with self driving cars: