Checkerboard Cartel: The B2B Market of Optical Calibration

An autonomous vehicle speeding down a highway at 70 mph relies entirely on an array of external cameras to identify pedestrians and calculate distances. But camera lenses are physically imperfect; the glass naturally warps and distorts the image at the edges. To prevent the car's AI from hallucinating the size and location of objects, the camera must be mathematically corrected at the factory usin...