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LIDAR sends out pulsed laser beams to measure the distance to things. It should work in complete darkness.
by brokenmachine 9y ago
LIDAR sends out pulsed laser beams to measure the distance to things.
It should work in complete darkness.
- lhorie 9y ago> It should work in complete darkness If that's true, this would certainly suggest a big failure from the LIDAR system in this incident. I wonder how that claim is tested. Would city lights interfere with testing (similar to how you can't see stars in the middle of cities)?
- brokenmachine 9y agoSomeone in another comment rightly mentioned that LIDAR might just be one input with visual/radar being others. So it may have ignored the LIDAR because of whatever was coming from the other inputs. It will be interesting to find out what actually happened. It is clearly a major malfunction or deficiency in the sensors, no doubt. For a self-driving car to not even apply the brakes at all in this situation is inexcusable.