Tag: lidar
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GM invests in radar software startup Oculii as demand for automated driving features rise
Oculii, a software startup that aims to improve the spatial resolution of radar sensors by up to 100-fold, has scored a new investment from General Motors. The new funding, which the two companies say is in the millions, comes just months after Oculii closed a $55 million Series B. Oculii and GM have already been…
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Tesla sends Luminar stock upward, but don’t expect Tesla to adopt LiDAR
Tesla’s rumored use of LiDAR systems from Luminar on a Model Y crossover have shot the company’s stock upward. After a Model Y was spotted in Palm Beach, Florida over the weekend sporting a hefty Luminar LiDAR rig, speculation raged on regarding Tesla’s potential use of the system. However, don’t expect Tesla CEO Elon Musk…
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The Station: The lidar SPAC craze and 10 investors give their mobility predictions
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign here just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Hi friends and new readers, welcome back to The Station, a publication dedicated to all the current and future ways people and bundles move from Point A to Point…
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Apple Car on its way with in-house battery; may launch in 2024
Apple Inc is reportedly working on self-driving car technology and is planning to produce a car or vehicle for consumers by 2024. However, it may be delayed to 2025 due to the pandemic. The efforts towards the self-driving car reportedly started in 2014, and the Cupertino-based tech giant even roped in its former employee Doug…
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Alfred Jones Talks About the Challenges of Designing Fully Self-Driving Vehicles
The leap to self-driving cars could be as game-changing as the one from horse power to engine power. If cars prove able to drive themselves better than humans do, the safety gains could be enormous: auto accidents were the #8 cause of death worldwide in 2016. And who doesn’t want to turn travel time into…
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Volvo to use Luminar’s lidar in production vehicles to unlock automated driving on highways
Volvo Cars will begin producing vehicles in 2022 that are built with lidar and a perception stack — technology produced by Silicon Valley startup Luminar the automaker can use to deploy an automated driving method for highways. For the time being, the lidar will be a part of a hardware bundle that consumers can add…
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CMU researchers use computer vision to see around corners
Future autonomous vehicle as well as other machine intelligence systems might not need line-of-sight to gather incredibly detailed picture info: New research from Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Toronto and University College London has invented a method for “watching around corners. ” The system employs special sources of lighting, combined with sensors and computer…
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Fresh off a $530M round, Aurora acquires lidar startup Blackmore
Aurora, the self-driving Automobile startup backed by Sequoia Capital and Amazon, is in an acquiring mood. The company, founded in early 2017 by Chris Urmson, Sterling Anderson and Drew Bagnell, announced Thursday that it acquired lidar company Blackmore. The Blackmore purchase follows a second smaller, and previously unknown, acquisition of 7D Labs that occurred earlier…