DEyncourt posted:Photographer says LIDAR system on self-driving car damaged his camera:
The "lights" in the sky are where the LIDAR burned out the sensors inside his camera (the line in the picture is an occasional artifact). The maker of the LIDAR system has offered to replace the $2 K camera.
AEye--the LIDAR maker--uses a 1550 nm laser which has the advantage of being opaque for the fluid inside human eyes. As a result they can use more powerful lasers than most LIDAR systems, BUT this does make anything without similar protection like camera sensors vulnerable to damage.
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arkayn posted:TOS posted:
Another Darwin award winner, doing the hikes in summer I can see, but in winter.
maurvir posted:
Then we saw the people who left AFTER sun up wearing sandals and flip-flops. I have no idea how these people made it. It's roughly a mile to the arch, uphill the entire way and the rock was already baking by the time we headed down.
Séamas posted:maurvir posted:
Then we saw the people who left AFTER sun up wearing sandals and flip-flops. I have no idea how these people made it. It's roughly a mile to the arch, uphill the entire way and the rock was already baking by the time we headed down.
In my experience, especially in mountains and ridges in my neck of the woods, the walk down is often as tricky as the climb up, and probably where choice of footwear makes the biggest difference. A lot of the trails near us are littered with with rock of various size, either bedrock poking through or ones anywhere between the size of a shoebox to a refrigerator, so a good number of them can wobble unexpectedly.
juice posted:Séamas posted:maurvir posted:
Then we saw the people who left AFTER sun up wearing sandals and flip-flops. I have no idea how these people made it. It's roughly a mile to the arch, uphill the entire way and the rock was already baking by the time we headed down.
In my experience, especially in mountains and ridges in my neck of the woods, the walk down is often as tricky as the climb up, and probably where choice of footwear makes the biggest difference. A lot of the trails near us are littered with with rock of various size, either bedrock poking through or ones anywhere between the size of a shoebox to a refrigerator, so a good number of them can wobble unexpectedly.
When I walked a trail at the Grand Canyon I found the trip down to be tough on my knees. It was an old copper mining trail so it had been cut to accommodate mule teams. Lots of stairs.