The problem is that the lights from the emergency vehicle can blow out the censors. The point cloud coming off of lightars is really sparse, and so therefore it's harder to identify objects that are further away. There's lots of good reasons to be made for also having radar or lighter on the car as independent source of information. And they're not all the same and, and they don't all require the same approaches.
The asinine "camera vs lidar" debates are blown apart into several, far more interesting pieces in this week's episode, as the gang is joined by longtime friend of the show Tarani Duncan and Jason Devitt, co-founder and CEO of Compound Eye. Discussion covers the multiple approaches to camera-based depth perception, the evolutionary vs ground-up approaches to autonomous vehicles, and a little lidar shade as a treat.