Kevin Jost

Its CAVstar automated driving systems for two UK-funded test projects, with one for an HVS-led effort to deliver a world-first, autonomous hydrogen-electric heavy good vehicle for the UK market, and the other looks at accelerating autonomous bus development complex traffic flows in Scotland.

Founded in 2017 by two Korean-born technologists who met in Tesla’s cafeteria a year earlier, the company is looking to unlock the potential they saw in early ADAS technology with a full-stack solution to enable a Level 2 ADAS feature set with three core products for vision, sensor fusion, and AI driving.

The company’s lidar design win with SAIC’s Rising Auto adds to many other applications for its long-range AT128 and combined with the short-range FT120 unveiled at CES 2023 forms a complete automotive grade lidar perception solution.

The Drive Pilot system was self-certified in Nevada for conditionally automated driving and will be available in the U.S. on the 2024 S-Class and EQS, with the system adding lidar, a rear-window camera, microphones for detecting emergency vehicles, and road wetness sensor.

The software startup’s top execs talked to Inside Autonomous Vehicles about how their new Hammerhead devkit shown at CES enables its customers to rapidly integrate the company’s game-changing stereo-vision technology for autonomous vehicles and other machines.

Its ray-tracing capability transforms the realism of simulation, accelerating the development of autonomous vehicles and advanced driving assistance systems by accurately simulating the effects of blurring and rolling shutters.

Just after the company showed its Waabi Driver-controlled autonomous truck for the first time, Volvo Group Venture Capital made a strategic investment in the company, joining other investors including Khosla Ventures, Uber, Radical Ventures, 8VC, OMERS Ventures, and BDC that believe in its approach.

The autonomous mover from the new Benteler vehicle brand, which had its world premiere at CES 2023, combines sustainability, inclusion, comfort, and safety with help from Pininfarina, Mobileye, Cognizant Mobility, and Beep, with a U.S. production start planned for the end of 2025. 

The launch of the Polestar 3 and Volvo EX90 electric vehicles represents a significant move by Google up the auto value chain into safety and greater driver assistance, and the map info combined with sensor data, Nvidia core computer system, and Zenseact software will enhance ADAS and AD.

At the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the team made up of autonomy-focused students and faculty from Politecnico di Milano in Italy and the University of Alabama, reached 180 mph—a new speed world record for the IAC on a racetrack, following its November victory at IAC competition in Texas.