Why do you think the LIDAR did not work? The LIDAR might have worked just fine but what the system taking the output of the sensor did with the data is the question.
If you want to know what we would expect the LIDAR to have seen in such a situation we did a simple simulation of such a scene here [1]
If the LIDAR was defective the system processing the sensor output should detect that there is no data coming in and the problem should change the cars behavior accordingly not just drive on as if nothing is wrong.
> Why do you think the LIDAR did not work? The LIDAR might have worked just fine but what the system taking the output of the sensor did with the data is the question.
If you want to know what we would expect the LIDAR to have seen in such a situation we did a simple simulation of such a scene here [1]
If the LIDAR was defective the system processing the sensor output should detect that there is no data coming in and the problem should change the cars behavior accordingly not just drive on as if nothing is wrong.
[1] http://www.blensor.org/lidar_accident.html