For Self-Driving Cars, Sensors Galore
Self-driving cars bring both opportunities and challenges to photonics-based sensors. Autonomous vehicles will need dozens of sensors ofmany types — lidar, camera, radar, and ultrasonic — and many sensors on millions of vehicles make the potential opportunity significant. The challenges are many as well. Cameras and lidars must operate for years across widely varying temperatures, illumination levels, and target reflectivities, while reliably producing the data needed for safe
Photonics Spectra, December 2018