Self-Driving Cars Are Dangerously Confused By LED Lights

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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?

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