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How AVs see at night: a one-minute Short

How AVs see at night
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Short · about a minute

How does a car see in the dark?

It doesn't really see. It measures.

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Cameras: the eyes

Great at color, signs and traffic lights. They struggle in glare and darkness.

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Lidar: a 3D scanner

Laser pulses bounce back and build a point cloud: precise shape and distance, all the way around.

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Quick guess

Thick fog rolls in. Which sensor still measures distance and speed best?

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Better together

The car blends every sensor into one 3D model. If glare blinds the camera, lidar and radar still catch the pedestrian.

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Remember this
Humans drive on intuition. AVs drive on data.
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