Since the later half of the 1990s though, your rodent has been ever significantly more likely to rely upon an optical sensor ... This laser distance sensor or perhaps this car movement tracker ...

Those sensors are finicky and a few problems during testing prompted him to look at a redundant system. Right now he’s experimenting with adding an optical mouse sensor to the autonomous vehicle.

The crap-ton of data the next generation of cars will be processing? It may not make it all the way from a front-bumper sensor array to ... Laser-coded optical transmission of voice, video ...