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Luminar's lidar beams will be absorbed by water rather than scattered so fog will effectively seem black to it rather than white and it will be just as unable t

Luminar's lidar beams will be absorbed by water rather than scattered so fog will effectively seem black to it rather than white and it will be just as unable to see through rain or fog as normal lidar or your eye. Thankfully if it's going to be developed in SF they'll be getting a lot of experience with fog.

dweekly 9y ago
True. For details on relative absorption and scattering and performance on rangefinding at 905nm vs 1550nm see https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/oere.2014.22.issue-3/s11772-014-0190-2/s11772-014-0190-2.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/oere.2014.22.issue-3...