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I'm sure this works well in bright light but I'm sceptical that this can perform at all well on overcast days or at night. The OS-1 device spins at 10Hz and the LIDAR samples 2048 points over one 360 degree revolution. This means each column of pixels is sampled at 1/20480 of a second. To sample that fast requires a lot of light which is fine on a sunny day but on a cloudy day you can have 100 time less light. And at night you would have no ambient near infrared light at all.

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Could you have a camera without the IR filter and then use IR leds to make up the difference? You would have to worry about other vehicles doing to same and blinding the cameras somehow but that might be a solution.