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This will make it easier for manufacturers to tuck the device away into a discreet location like below car headlights or on top of a semi truck's cabin. These high-tech add-on accessories turn typical production passenger cars and cargo trucks into self-driving-ready robot vehicles. The founder of autonomous driving firm Luminar - which supplies the lidar sensor on the new Volvo EX90 - reckons the Full Self-Driving tech championed by Tesla and CEO Elon Musk isn’t all.
Test units of the system were rather bulky, but the new hardware is about one third of their size. The Iris is a more compact device than previous models too. However, Alphabet subsidiary Waymo did announce earlier this year that it would sell its own LiDARs for a more affordable price of $7,500. Luminar shares were up 9 at 7. This is a massive saving from other LiDAR systems on the market today, which run up to $75,000 for a top of the line unit from developer Velodyne. Luminar's Iris LiDAR systems will cost less than $1,000 per unit for production vehicles or $500 for a limited version, according to TechCrunch. Plus’s driver-in, L2++ solution, PlusDrive, which enables supervised autonomy is already commercially available and used to deliver freight by some of the largest fleets in the world today. Now, autonomous vehicle sensor and software company Luminar has announced a new platform which will be a lower-priced alternative to current LiDAR systems. This latest generation technology is designed for the highest levels of functional safety and cybersecurity, and is supported by sensors from a wide range of leading suppliers including Continental, Hella, Luminar, Sony and Valeo.
LiDAR (laser pulse-based radar) is an essential component of autonomous driving, as it's what vehicles use to detect obstacles like other cars or pedestrians in order to navigate around them. NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion 8 is a computer architecture and sensor set for full self-driving systems.
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