Reply to post: Re: LiDAR doesn't work in the dark? WTF?

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

erst

Re: LiDAR doesn't work in the dark? WTF?

I’m pretty sure the LiDAR registered the woman crossing. It doesn’t rely on the head lights but has its own infrared laser, and it should get returns from a human sized object well beyond 50 m. If I were to guess, I would guess that it’s a logical error in the programming. They seem to be on a freeway or similar where pedestrians are very unlikely to be in the middle of the road, and then the detections were simply considered as noise, and disregarded.

Isn’t it odd that the police publishes the face of the driver like this, before any trial and sentencing...?

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