Sub-$200 Lidar Could Reshuffle Auto Sensor Economics

Re:Sub-$200 Lidar Could Reshuffle Auto Sensor Economics by cobbzilla on Monday February 23, 2026 @08:54AM (#47122353)

There are good arguments but this isn’t one. Many humans (like me!) drive fine without binocular vision. And the cars have many cameras all around, with wide angle lenses that are watching everything all the time, when a human can only focus in one direction at a time.

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Re:Sub-$200 Lidar Could Reshuffle Auto Sensor Economics by jeltz on Monday February 23, 2026 @09:22AM (#47122720)

So your eye does not have an adjustable position and you cannot use mirrors?

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Re:Sub-$200 Lidar Could Reshuffle Auto Sensor Economics by wat10000 on Monday February 23, 2026 @11:20AM (#47124415)

Both are easily compensated for by having many cameras.

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Re:Sub-$200 Lidar Could Reshuffle Auto Sensor Economics by venusenvy47 on Monday February 23, 2026 @02:58PM (#47127868)

I thought only the front view has binocular vision on the cars. The others are single, with no depth perception. How does it know how close objects are outside this forward cone?

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378671275/figure/fi...

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Re:Sub-$200 Lidar Could Reshuffle Auto Sensor Economics by cobbzilla on Monday February 23, 2026 @08:02PM (#47131449)

I’m guessing the fields of view overlap for any 2 adjacent cameras, so you can get parallax measurements from any angle.

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