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"Close one eye and try to judge how far away the car ahead is. You can see it, but you lose depth.

A standard camera does the same thing—it sees the world in 2D.That's why the Aurora Driver doesn't rely on cameras alone. It combines lidar, radar, and cameras.
Lidar fires lasers to measure the exact distance to everything around the truck, day or night. FirstLight, our proprietary lidar, can see more than 1,000 meters down the road.

Watch one of our Aurora engineers explain the difference lidar makes. His team designs the technology our trucks use to see."