Comment on Autonomes Fahren: Lidar kann Smartphone-Kameras schwer beschädigen
mbirth@lemmy.ml 5 weeks agoNo, the LIDAR is an infrared laser. Invisible and harmless to the human eye, but a phone’s camera can pick it up. And due to the intensity, if going too close, it’ll burn out the pixels of the camera sensor leaving permanent damage.
Here’s a great demonstration: x.com/niccruzpatane/status/1924485047580586294
Buffalox@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Thanks, that’s a very good example. 👍
What was confusing about the article, was the stupid part about the problem going away when zooming out? Which in fact is probably switching to another camera.
mbirth@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
It was exactly this and people were furiously pointing it out in the comments.