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There was a big NYTimes article about this a few weeks ago, and somebody in the comments complain that the bright white LED headlights were ruining the proximity sensors on their Volvo and they couldn’t install optical filters without voiding the warranty. To me this seemed weird cause I thought those things worked on IR. I’m wondering if there’s some sort of CV solution to this? I don’t see how narrow color temperature of LEDs would affect IR sensors, etc.



Leds can output 275nm-950nm.

IR is between 780nm-1mm.

These aren’t exact numbers.

Probably something in that overlap was damaging them somehow. Or it might be something totally different and the person had misdiagnosed.

What I’m uncertain of, is if the led is intended to produce a certain color (white, blue) how much it would be emitting on the IT spectrum.

Example: https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/us/semiconductor/knowled...




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