Reply to post: Re: if the wipers go continuous for more than 12 seconds.

Pioneer slaps 80s LASERS on cars for driverless push

Naughtyhorse

Re: if the wipers go continuous for more than 12 seconds.

rather suggests it is affected then. makes sense.

using survey lidar you get more than 1 bounce from a pulse, so for eg, a pulse from an aircraft hitting the canopy of a tree will give a return from the canopy, and the light continues sending further returns as it encounters more leaves, and finally the ground. usually you can take upto 4 returns from each pulse.

A raindrop would surely generate a return, and even moderately light rain would trigger a few returns over the sort of distances you would want to measure in a driving system which would be okay for the laser, but really up the workload on the the processing end of things!

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