Reply to post: Re: Shouldn't lidar work *better* in the dark?

Uber's disturbing fatal self-driving car crash, a new common sense challenge for AI, and Facebook's evil algorithms

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Re: Shouldn't lidar work *better* in the dark?

True, but as I understand it the woman was dressed in black. That's where the problem lies; the lidar signal showed only small objects (part of bicycle, shoes) and did not realise they were connected.

That said, a pedestrian walking across a road at night wearing black - how many average drivers would have seen her?

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