Lexus's Autonomous Tech Can See Farther Than Anyone

With CES in Las Vegas right around the corner, Lexus takes the cover off of their current state of affairs with autonomous driving capabilities. Check out what Platform 3.0 holds right now below.

By Sarah Portia - January 5, 2018

 

and such an attractive roof sensor array

 

LOL, But you have to pick your poison. It's either that or this below

The Toyota research group in Michigan doing this work was actually very proud that they could miniaturize and package all of the sensors on the white 600hL into the more "elegant" array of the gray car!

 

What happens to the sensor when it snows? Will a little robot pop out and clean it up?

 

Cadillac is ahead of the game.

 

sensors are on the side, not at top... but in general, none of the systems will work in bad weather anyway... so rain, heavy wind, snow = not working.

 

how about heating elements all over it to melt anything on it?

 

eventually they might actually give it pressurized washers like for front lights.

 

exactly. a non-issue eventually. now if 10 feet of snow is on top of the car, the car likely would say "hey you lazy bum, shovel all that off the roof!"

 

i guess that the shipping system will be built into sides of the roof in the end anyway. But progress is quite nice for one year.

Toyoda was smart to get the best team possible in the US R&D, Japanese are too careful for this kind of stuff.

 

agree 100%

 

Of course it can see better there's an NSA space satellite on the roof.