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Why not just place a mirror at 45 degrees in the corner? That way you don't need the lidar but you can just look around the corner? It would also work better with the lidar.

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I would be interested in seeing your visual mockups of how such a solution works on one of the article’s examples, like a car.

Every car just needs n number of mirrors on articulating joints and to sense any oncoming cars that need to see around a corner and then receive a command to reposition said mirror.

Like this: https://c8.alamy.com/compde/t0580m/der-verkehr-kurve-spiegel...

Or this: https://cdn-01-artemis.media-brady.com/Assets/ImageRoot/DMEU...

Reasonably common in difficult corners in Germany and Austria. Probably elsewhere too.

The downside is that it's road infrastructure that has to be installed. The upside is that it works for everyone, including people in 20 year old cars or on bicycles.

You know what, that’s fair. That’s a good solution.

If it weren’t for the struggles of getting municipal infrastructure installed, I’d prefer it.

These are very common in Spain too.

Mirrors allow two-way looking.

That's easily worked around (e.g. fisheye and appropriate correction). The real problem is that the scenarios discussed don't allow for setup, otherwise they could just use preplaced cameras...

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