Determining the speed of vehicles. In Australia, the simplest lidars are used to determine the speed of cars - as well as the police radar. An optical "radar" significantly smaller traditional, but less reliable in determining the speed of modern cars: the reflection from the inclined plane of complex shape "confuse" lidar.
Unmanned vehicles. In the years 1987-1995 during the project EUREKA Prometheus, which has cost the European Union more than $ 1 billion, were developed the first practical development of unmanned vehicles. The most famous prototype, VaMP (developer - University of the Bundeswehr in Munich) did not use the lidar due to lack of computing power of the then processors. The newest of their development, MuCAR-3 (2006), uses a single lidar Omnidirection raised high above the roof of cars, along with the camera aimed multifocal review forward and inertial navigation system. Lidar MuCAR-3 uses a subsystem of the selection of the optimal trajectory to the terrain, it gives an angular resolution of 0,01 ° in the dynamic range of the optical receiver 1:106, which gives the effective radius of the review of 120 m. In order to achieve an acceptable scan speed using a beam of 64 divergent laser rays, so a full "frame" requires a single turnover rotating mirror.
Since 2003, the U.S. government through the agency of advanced military developments DARPA funded the development and competition cars, robots. Every year the race DARPA Grand Challenge; in the race in 2005 won a car from Stanford, based on a system of which - five lidars directed review.
Automatic docking system. The Canadian company Optech develops and manufactures systems for automatic docking in orbit, based on lidar.