Self-Driving Cars Are Dangerously Confused By LED Lights

This video is sponsored by Merck, a science and technology company. Find out how curiosity can change our future: https://www.merckgroup.com/en/worlds-of-curiosity/?ko=smo #alwayscurious LED lights can look like they're doing weird things when viewed through a digital camera. It's all to do with the frame rate of the camera and the duty cycle of the LED. It's a real problem for autonomous vehicles. Self driving cars analyse footage from cameras to makes driving decisions that affect road safety. Under the right conditions a break light can even look like a turn signal! So what's the solution? The image of the car from the thumbnail is by Michael Shick: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Google_self_driving_car_at_the_Googleplex.jpg The shrug emoji from the thumbnail is by EmmanuelCordoliani: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Person_shrugging_Emoji.png You can buy my books here: https://stevemould.com/books You can support me on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/stevemould just like these amazing people: Glenn Watson Peter Turner Joël van der Loo Matthew Cocke Mark Brouwer Deneb Twitter: http://twitter.com/moulds Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stevemouldscience/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stevemouldscience/ Buy nerdy maths things: http://mathsgear.co.uk