[kevitivity]

Visible laser light kills cameras all the time. I think this is more likely what happened here.

https://photofocus.com/2013/09/14/beware-lasers-can-kill-you...

[wlesieutre]

That he took a photo of a visible light laser and it wasn't the car's IR laser?

Or just that lasers in general are known to do this and the car's laser probably did it?

[jcims]

Indeed. Lots of evidence on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=laser+sensor+ki...