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Re:Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Univ... by doctoboggan on Thursday December 11, 2025 @01:48PM (#46235346)
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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Re:Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Univ... by dylan604 on Thursday December 11, 2025 @01:49PM (#46235369)
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
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Re:Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Univ... by slashdave on Thursday December 11, 2025 @01:55PM (#46235486)
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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Re:Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Univ... by Rebelgecko on Thursday December 11, 2025 @02:40PM (#46236146)
Your body has signs to knock it off when you're staring at the sun, does it do the same thing for Lidar?
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Re:Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Univ... by airstrike on Thursday December 11, 2025 @01:57PM (#46235519)
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
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