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Sure but there's no doppler effect if the target moves tangentially to your radar.



For automotive radar, I'm not sure the requirement is to determine the true speed of the detected object. The requirement is to determine if the radar vehicle is likely to collide with the detected object.

If the detected object is moving tangentially with the radar, relative velocity would be zero, because it's staying a fixed distance from the vehicle while both are in motion, and would seem to not be in the path of a collision.


Author here: You can still use angle of arrival estimates from the MIMO antenna system to track the object. https://www.viksnewsletter.com/p/how-radar-measures-angle?r=...




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