Comment by rightbyte

"Its particular superpower is that it can generate high resolution images of its surroundings much better than radar can."

Is this true tough? Car radars are fixed. I guess a comparable lidar would be fixed too and have n points for n lasers.

A rovolving radar would have continuous resolution around while a lidar samples?

I thought the advantage of lidars were accuracy and being better at measuring heights of objects, where as radars flatten the view.