How AVs see at night: a one-minute Short
How AVs see at night
Short · about a minute
tap to start →How does a car see in the dark?
It doesn't really see. It measures.
Cameras: the eyes
Great at color, signs and traffic lights. They struggle in glare and darkness.
Lidar: a 3D scanner
Laser pulses bounce back and build a point cloud: precise shape and distance, all the way around.
Quick guess
Thick fog rolls in. Which sensor still measures distance and speed best?
Better together
The car blends every sensor into one 3D model. If glare blinds the camera, lidar and radar still catch the pedestrian.
Remember this
Humans drive on intuition. AVs drive on data.