The "smart" pollution is spreading. Car lidar (laser) destroys man's $1998 ccamera.

"Man says CES lidar’s laser was so powerful it wrecked his $1,998 camera":  
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/01/man-says-ces-lidars-laser-was-so-powerful-it-wrecked-his-1998-camera/

Interesting quote from the article:

"But it also has a big advantage: the fluid in the human eye is opaque to 1550nm light, so the light can't reach the retina at the back of the eye. This means lasers can operate at much higher power levels without posing an eye safety risk. AEye uses 1550nm lasers. And unfortunately for Chowdhury, cameras are not filled with fluid like human eyes are. That means that high-power 1550nm lasers can easily cause damage to camera sensors even if they don't pose a threat to human eyes."

If they can burn camera sensors, I don't trust these companies for a second with their safety assessments. Smells like another cell phone type safety evaluation.

casper wrote

"Man says CES lidar’s laser was so powerful it wrecked his $1,998 camera":  
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/01/man-says-ces-lidars-laser-was-so-powerful-it-wrecked-his-1998-camera/

Interesting quote from the article:

"But it also has a big advantage: the fluid in the human eye is opaque to 1550nm light, so the light can't reach the retina at the back of the eye. This means lasers can operate at much higher power levels without posing an eye safety risk. AEye uses 1550nm lasers. And unfortunately for Chowdhury, cameras are not filled with fluid like human eyes are. That means that high-power 1550nm lasers can easily cause damage to camera sensors even if they don't pose a threat to human eyes."

If they can burn camera sensors, I don't trust these companies for a second with their safety assessments. Smells like another cell phone type safety evaluation.

Yeah, you can't shine high power anything in the eye without screwing something up. Jack Kruse carries a UV light with him all the time just to prove to opticians that the eye DOES allow UV light in, which in all textbooks says it blocks 100%. Upon shining the light the reflection can be seen on the back of the retina, so he asks them how come that happens if it blocks 100%. I don't understand how exactly they manage to see UV light though.. maybe some special lens.

Cars are already becoming dangerous due to their insanely strong blue LED lights and microwave radar.. Only some makes,.. Toyota's LED lights on my corolla for example are not too bad, but some others are just extremely ridiculous.