Hawkwind & The History of Lidar

Jon Summers is the Motoring Historian. He was a company car thrashing technology sales rep that turned into a fairly inept sports bike rider. On his show he gets together with various co-hosts to talk about new and old cars, driving, motorbikes, motor racing, motoring travel.

• Hawkwind -Master of the Universe
• An Introduction to Lidar, by someone who can’t remember what the acronym stands for
• Wisk, the flying car people
• Tristram Shandy
• The Presenter, Rafael Fors
• Data point capture and the measure of the rate of progress. 44k to 12.5 million is the corrected, key data point I got wrong (go me!)
• J saw the rise of Nvidia coming, thanks to researching robot cars
• David Beckham’s football boot as a metaphor, Valeo is the boot not the player
• Top Trumps slide on the performance
• Foxconn and the coming Chinese EV invasion
• Valeo Scala 3
• Hawkwind - Moonglum (chorus)
• Audi’s 15 year built in obsolesense
• Hawkwind - Spirit of the Age
• A digression on Audi’s fake exhausts
• BMW design has badly lost it’s way
• Hawkwind - The Right to Decide
• Hawkwind - Psy Power
• Scala 2’s wash wipe looks like the ones on J and M’s 1990 Ford Sierra Ghia
• A stupid question?
• Waymo a user?
• Hawkwind - Moonglum (solo)
• Conclusions: the true value of Lidar, and a prediction of flying cars
• Hawkwind - Spirit of the Age