[rajnathani]

> Autonomous vehicles might see their surroundings with unprecedented clarity.

This is a pretty good point, which gets me to wonder whether the developers of autonomous vehicles use variable focus adjustments as a part of their ML stack? Or simply set the focal point to infinity.

[mxkopy]

The image is a byproduct in autonomous driving. Successful implementations (Waymo) use lidar, which doesn’t need focal adjustments. If for some reason quality RGB pixels are needed (e.g. for entity recognition) then they will probably focus on moving objects. This paper ties in nicely with lidar since it apparently needs depth information to work which is exactly what lidar provides