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BMW tests next-gen LiDAR to beat Tesla to Level 3 self-driving cars (www.zdnet.com)

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BMW tests next-gen LiDAR to beat Tesla to Level 3 self-driving cars::Tesla's autonomous vehicle tech has been perennially stuck at Level 2 self-driving, as BMW and other rivals try to leapfrog to Level 3.

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[+] CanadianNomad -22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All it would take is 1 poorly designed aftermarket laser, or some freak prism effect from some particulate on the lens to permanently blind someone.

It's extremely low band infrared. It's like the infrared lasers from your remote control it's not going to burn you retinas out also that's not how lasers work, you can't convert from invisible light to visible light lasers through refraction or reflection.

[–] You999 1 points 1 year ago

That's not how light/laser and prisms work. Prisms only separate out the frequencies that are contained within the light/laser. imagine the light is a sandwich and each frequency is a peice of the sandwich. If you take apart the sandwich you still have the same bread, meat and cheese just not stacked together. That's what the prism is basically doing.