VL53L4cd not able to detect dark surface

[pthakkar]

I am trying to use VL53L4CD to detect whether there is a car on top of the sensor or not...I am placing my sensor on the ground and trying to detect if a car is parked on top of the sensor. But it is not able to detect the cars bottom surface. However if I place any other object it is able to detect that....

Is this the right sensor for this application?

[AScha.3]

For detecting a car usually inductive sensors are used, something like a big wire loop in the ground.

Optical sensor on the ground is a bad idea, just imagine some drops of black oil dropping down...

[pthakkar]

Oil spillage and things have been taken care of. Only issue is that the sensor is not able to detect the car when it is on top..