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Can A Car's LiDAR Sensor Damage Your Phone Camera? Viral Video Sparks Debate
Smartphone cameras can indeed be damaged when they are pointed straight at the LiDAR sensor.
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Toyota Joins Tesla In Developing Self-Driving Tech With Low-Cost Cameras
Toyota unit Woven Planet aims to use low-cost cameras in place of lidar sensors for self-driving tech in order to reduce costs and scale up the technology.
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Intel’s Self-Driving Unit Mobileye Confidentially Files for US IPO
Intel's self-driving car unit Mobileye confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the US, setting the stage for what is expected to be one of the biggest stock market flotations of the year.
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BYD Invests In LiDAR Maker RoboSense
BYD wants to leverage RoboSenses LiDAR technology just the way it outsources its battery tech to many companies
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Motional & Uber Eats Partner For Deliveries Via Robotaxis
Motional has already started a ride-sharing service with Uber's main rival Lyft.
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Alphabet's Waymo To Stop Selling Lidar Self-Driving Car Sensors
The move to stop selling lidars comes after the departure of CEO John Krafcik and some other executives, which had fueled questions about whether Waymo would rethink its strategy after failing to generate significant revenue for over a decade.
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Volvo Cars To Harness Real-Time Data From Customer Cars To Set New Safety Standards
For its next generation of cars, Volvo Cars is now looking towards processing data from customer cars in real time, if customers choose to share data and help Volvo Cars make its cars safer.
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Tesla Doubles Down on Camera-Based Pure Vision Autopilot Amid Growing Scrutiny
Tesla said it will drop a radar sensor in favour of a camera-focused Autopilot system for its Model 3 and Model Y vehicles in North America starting this month.
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Aeva, the Driving Startup Founded by Former Apple Engineers, Says Its Sensor Can Detect Vehicles 500m Away
Self-driving sensor startup Aeva Technologies, founded by former Apple engineers, said its sensor can detect other vehicles from beyond 500m and pedestrians from a distance of more than 350m.
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Intel's Self-Driving Car Unit Mobileye Plans to Step Up Use of Its Own Radar Tech by 2025
The head of Intel's self-driving car subsidiary said that the company wants to shift toward using its own radar-based technology and use a single LiDAR sensor per vehicle by 2025 in a bid to lower the cost of autonomous driving.
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Peter Thiel And Volvo Backed LiDAR Maker Luminar Is Going Public With A Valuation Of $3.4 Billion
Luminar makes LiDAR technology for many automotive players and is considered to be one of the best in the business. It is backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and Volvo.
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Self-Driving Startup Aurora Bets On Lidar In First Acquisition
Aurora recently raised $530 million from investors including Sequoia Capital, Amazon.com Inc. and T. Rowe Price Group Inc. It's acquiring Blackmore Sensors & Analytics, a lidar startup that had raised funding from BMW i Ventures and Toyota AI Ventures, for undisclosed terms.
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Apple Said to Be in Talks With Potential Suppliers of Sensors for Self-Driving Cars
Apple is seeking lidar units that would be smaller, cheaper and more easily mass produced than current technology
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Nvidia Develops Virtual Testing Platform For Autonomous Cars
Nvidia has introduced a cloud-based system for testing autonomous vehicles using photorealistic simulation. It's called Nvidia Drive Constellation and is a computing platform based on two different servers. The first server runs the Drive Sim software to simulate a self-driving vehicle's sensors, such as cameras, lidar and radar.
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Can A Car's LiDAR Sensor Damage Your Phone Camera? Viral Video Sparks Debate
Smartphone cameras can indeed be damaged when they are pointed straight at the LiDAR sensor.
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Toyota Joins Tesla In Developing Self-Driving Tech With Low-Cost Cameras
Toyota unit Woven Planet aims to use low-cost cameras in place of lidar sensors for self-driving tech in order to reduce costs and scale up the technology.
-
Intel’s Self-Driving Unit Mobileye Confidentially Files for US IPO
Intel's self-driving car unit Mobileye confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the US, setting the stage for what is expected to be one of the biggest stock market flotations of the year.
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BYD Invests In LiDAR Maker RoboSense
BYD wants to leverage RoboSenses LiDAR technology just the way it outsources its battery tech to many companies
-
Motional & Uber Eats Partner For Deliveries Via Robotaxis
Motional has already started a ride-sharing service with Uber's main rival Lyft.
-
Alphabet's Waymo To Stop Selling Lidar Self-Driving Car Sensors
The move to stop selling lidars comes after the departure of CEO John Krafcik and some other executives, which had fueled questions about whether Waymo would rethink its strategy after failing to generate significant revenue for over a decade.
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Volvo Cars To Harness Real-Time Data From Customer Cars To Set New Safety Standards
For its next generation of cars, Volvo Cars is now looking towards processing data from customer cars in real time, if customers choose to share data and help Volvo Cars make its cars safer.
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Tesla Doubles Down on Camera-Based Pure Vision Autopilot Amid Growing Scrutiny
Tesla said it will drop a radar sensor in favour of a camera-focused Autopilot system for its Model 3 and Model Y vehicles in North America starting this month.
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Aeva, the Driving Startup Founded by Former Apple Engineers, Says Its Sensor Can Detect Vehicles 500m Away
Self-driving sensor startup Aeva Technologies, founded by former Apple engineers, said its sensor can detect other vehicles from beyond 500m and pedestrians from a distance of more than 350m.
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Intel's Self-Driving Car Unit Mobileye Plans to Step Up Use of Its Own Radar Tech by 2025
The head of Intel's self-driving car subsidiary said that the company wants to shift toward using its own radar-based technology and use a single LiDAR sensor per vehicle by 2025 in a bid to lower the cost of autonomous driving.
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Peter Thiel And Volvo Backed LiDAR Maker Luminar Is Going Public With A Valuation Of $3.4 Billion
Luminar makes LiDAR technology for many automotive players and is considered to be one of the best in the business. It is backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and Volvo.
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Self-Driving Startup Aurora Bets On Lidar In First Acquisition
Aurora recently raised $530 million from investors including Sequoia Capital, Amazon.com Inc. and T. Rowe Price Group Inc. It's acquiring Blackmore Sensors & Analytics, a lidar startup that had raised funding from BMW i Ventures and Toyota AI Ventures, for undisclosed terms.
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Apple Said to Be in Talks With Potential Suppliers of Sensors for Self-Driving Cars
Apple is seeking lidar units that would be smaller, cheaper and more easily mass produced than current technology
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Nvidia Develops Virtual Testing Platform For Autonomous Cars
Nvidia has introduced a cloud-based system for testing autonomous vehicles using photorealistic simulation. It's called Nvidia Drive Constellation and is a computing platform based on two different servers. The first server runs the Drive Sim software to simulate a self-driving vehicle's sensors, such as cameras, lidar and radar.
