<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>entangledqubit</author><text>Does anyone know whether eye safety is de facto maintained when your eye is being continuously bombarded by the 100+ scanning lasers being emitted from each of the 100 cars in the vicinity of an intersection?  I&amp;#x27;m on board with the case with a handful of lasers scanning by quickly but the energy may really start to add up in certain plausible future scenarios.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ouster&apos;s new digital Lidar – 128 beams, ultra-wide view</title><url>https://ouster.com/blog/128-channel-lidar-sensors-long-range-and-ultra-wide-view/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kensai</author><text>Am surprised no one yet cited Elon saying &amp;quot;this is fool&amp;#x27;s errand&amp;quot; because of price, complexity, etc. I think LIDAR will improve significantly the safety of vehicles (autonomous or not) because it can definitely see better and deeper, even in damning weather conditions (rain, fog, haze).&lt;p&gt;Alas, the price of these devices has to come down at least one order of magnitude. Maybe even two. Still, I am really thankful that other companies (since Tesla has no interest in it) are considering and further developing LIDAR.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ouster&apos;s new digital Lidar – 128 beams, ultra-wide view</title><url>https://ouster.com/blog/128-channel-lidar-sensors-long-range-and-ultra-wide-view/</url></story>