Researchers have designed a single-photon time-of-flight LiDAR system that can acquire a high-resolution 3D image of an object or scene up to 1 kilometer away. The new system could help enhance security, monitoring, and remote sensing by enabling detailed imaging even in challenging environmental conditions or when objects are obscured by foliage or camouflage netting.
Their camera gets confused by large objects in the dark that obstruct it’s view. It has crashed into a few overturned vehicles at night because it didn’t know what they were and just disengaged instead of detecting an impasse and stopping.
I feel that way, sometimes, too. ;-)