Why not just place a mirror at 45 degrees in the corner? That way you don't need the lidar but you can just look around the corner? It would also work better with the lidar.

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devmor 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I would be interested in seeing your visual mockups of how such a solution works on one of the article’s examples, like a car.

	▲	wongarsu 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Like this: https://c8.alamy.com/compde/t0580m/der-verkehr-kurve-spiegel... Or this: https://cdn-01-artemis.media-brady.com/Assets/ImageRoot/DMEU... Reasonably common in difficult corners in Germany and Austria. Probably elsewhere too. The downside is that it's road infrastructure that has to be installed. The upside is that it works for everyone, including people in 20 year old cars or on bicycles.
	▲	dietrichsam 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Every car just needs n number of mirrors on articulating joints and to sense any oncoming cars that need to see around a corner and then receive a command to reposition said mirror.