ADAS

The joint development is for a next-generation high-end parking user experience for customers on private grounds and parking facilities ranging from automated maneuver assistance to Level 4 automated valet parking.

In addition to supplying lidar for Polestar 3 and its sister model Volvo EX90, the Polestar partnership extends to future cars including the upcoming Polestar 5, and at CES the lidar maker unveiled its new software-based mapping product developed after secretive acquisition of Civil Maps.

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 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.

The company’s CES Innovation Award Honoree Technology solution offers AI based safety for ADAS and autonomous driving to identify, classify, and track surrounding objects for real-time analysis of the free space around the vehicle, as well as evolving hazards.

Automobiles are increasingly becoming software-defined platforms, which opens up a lot of flexibility but creates potential pitfalls as well, according to speakers on the first day of CES 2023.

Record SuperVision and future AV design wins in 2022 led to an expected $17 billion ADAS revenue pipeline through 2030 and its innovation roadmap includes key new technologies like imaging radar.

Among the supplier’s big show news was the world premiere of next generation Level 4 autonomous shuttle and a new partnership with Beep on autonomous transport systems for customers in the U.S. and a new multi-domain version of ZF ProAI high-performance computer.