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thundara  ·  2819 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: MIT and Darpa Pack Lidar Sensor onto Single Chip

    The LIDAR-on-a-chip shown here has a range of 2m (potential to 10)

I didn't catch that on my read. I'd imagine that's pretty limiting then. Even if you coated your car in these and had über-machine-vision reconstruct the 3D landscape around the car, you'd still not be anywhere close to catching objects at the edge of your stopping distance. That can barely work for Google's tiny car let alone a vehicle going 60 mph on the highway.