Some users are learning the hard way that filming a laser or the lidar sensor on a Volvo can irreversibly fry pixels in your ...

Modern smartphones can survive drops and even take a swim, but they may have met their match – and it's not what anyone ...

One reddit user found out earlier this month that car-mounted lidar sensors can damage a phone camera under certain ...

Yes, a random laser, including LiDAR sensors, could permanently damage the camera on your precious phone. More details here.

But a viral video shared to Reddit is illustrating another potential destroyer of cameras: the LiDAR on self-driving cars.

There's no dispute that powerful lasers can damage cameras. The website of the International Laser Display Association, which represents companies running laser light shows, says that "camera ...

the damage only appeared when the telephoto module was engaged. The video shows how the pulsing laser damaged individual pixels on the sensor when the camera operator zoomed in, then it shows how ...

more susceptible to damage than the human eye from lasers. Consumers are usually warned never to point a camera directly at laser emitters during a laser show." Jit Ray Chowdhury The lidar system ...