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>I find that I rely on my hearing nearly as much as my eyesight. Especially to detect dangerous conditions that demand quick decisions, I find that hearing is t
by ianferrel 6y ago
>I find that I rely on my hearing nearly as much as my eyesight. Especially to detect dangerous conditions that demand quick decisions, I find that hearing is the most important of the senses.
Would that still be true if you had eyes pointed in all directions? Hearing is 360 degrees, and so is automotive vision/lidar.
- artfulhippo 6y agoSomeone can correct me if I’m wrong about the biophysics of perception, but it seems to me that I register surprising sounds with less latency than unusual sights. Computers definitely have less latency for audio than video, what with audio waves having many thousands of hertz while for video anything over 120fps is high speed.
- ianferrel 6y agoThe latency of sound processing in computers is probably less relevant than the latency of sound propagation due to physics. Speed of sound is ~350m/s. So, whatever you're processing in 1/120th of a second is sound that was only like 10 feet away.