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Lasers kill cameras. Someone at CES visited the AEye booth, snapped a picture of an autonomous car at AEye’s booth, and the LIDAR killed the sensor. Every subsequent picture had a purple spot in the same place. While we know lasers can kill camera sensors, and this is a great example of that, this does open the door to a few questions: if autonomous cars have LIDAR and are covered in cameras, what’s going to happen to the cameras in an autonomous car driving beside another autonomous car? Has anyone ever seen more than one Cruise or Waymo car in the same place at the same time? As an aside, AEye’s company website’s URL is aeye.ai, nearly beating penisland.net (they sell pens on Pen Island) as the worst company URL ever.
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“Has anyone ever seen more than one Cruise or Waymo car in the same place at the same time?”
Answer -> Yes, daily. Not one of them had been issued a white cane.
Presumably the car’s own cameras have filters that block the light frequency of the LIDAR arrays, would be stupid not to mount such systems, otherwise just driving past some buildings with mirrored windows would produce the same effect.
But what about outdoor security camera? If there’s more of such cars with LIDAR, would that ruin cameras on daily basis and made catching criminal a lot harder?
So more cars with Lidar would be a cure against rampant grow of video surveillance?
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Last I “looked”, lasers weren’t too good for human eyes either.
Maybe I need to start wearing laser glasses everywhere. Also makes me wonder what frequency they are using for the lidar. IR usually just bounces off glass. What is that camera lens made out of?
Is this just an urban legend or an observer thing?
Yeah, Jesus, if there’s a laser mounted to a car strong enough to burn a camera sensor – imagine what it might do to the human eye!
Look into LIDAR with remaining eye. :-p
Guess you’ll need a self driving car after you get blinded by one.
Therefore autonomous cars are creating their own market!
Perhaps nothing. The lens (aperture) of a camera (except cellphone cam) is normally much bigger than the lens of the eye. The worst combination is a video beamer opposite a lasershow projector. The big lens catches enough energy to damage the DLP chip. The tiny moving mirrors have also much less heat capacity then the water filled human eye.
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Dichroic filters are used on the cameras when long range LIDAR is nearby. They typically reflect wavelengths longer than 1100nm, and pass everything shorter. Because the long range LIDAR lasers are at a “eye safe” wavelength (meaning it only burns your cornea) of 1400nm or longer, the cameras are protected. Silicon is nearly transparent at these wavelengths, but two-photon absorption becomes a dominant mechanism of damage. Shorter range systems sometimes use shorter wavelength lasers with optical notch filters on the cameras, and a band pass filter on the APD detector.
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