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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dylan604 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

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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slashdave 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

	▲	Rebelgecko 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Your body has signs to knock it off when you're staring at the sun, does it do the same thing for Lidar?
	▲	airstrike 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		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