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Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free

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319 points doctoboggan | 5 comments | 11 Dec 25 18:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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suprnurd ◴[11 Dec 25 18:38 UTC] No.46235191[source]▶
Where I live I am often surrounded by Waymo vehicles... is Lidar 100% safe for people to be around? I ask because I read an article about how Lidar on one of the new Volvos could destroy your phone camera if you pointed it at it? If Lidar can do that to a phone camera, can it hurt your eyes?
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1. doctoboggan ◴[11 Dec 25 18:48 UTC] No.46235346[source]▶
I watched the livestream and they said their hardware is "Camera Safe". I am not sure if camera safe and eye safe are correlated, but I would hope/expect that they would not release something that isn't known to be eye safe. I guess it's possible that the long term effects could prove bad, and we will all end up getting "Lidar Eye" dead spots in our vision.
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2. dylan604 ◴[11 Dec 25 18:49 UTC] No.46235369[source]▶
Digital camera sensors are much more sensitive than eyeballs, so it's not out of the realm of possibility that it won't leave a permanent line across your eyeball like it can to a camera sensor
3. slashdave ◴[11 Dec 25 18:55 UTC] No.46235486[source]▶
Lidar Eye? No, how the heck would that happen? I mean, there is a dangerous source of light outside (we call it the "sun"), and yet we manage fine.
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4. airstrike ◴[11 Dec 25 18:57 UTC] No.46235519[source]▶
I mean, technically the Sun is "above" us and the LIDARs are at...eye level? So not exactly the same, at least to my layman eyes
5. Rebelgecko ◴[11 Dec 25 19:40 UTC] No.46236146[source]▶
Your body has signs to knock it off when you're staring at the sun, does it do the same thing for Lidar?