Driverless Cars

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.

The computing efficiency of autonomous vehicles must rise to prevent a major rise in their carbon footprint.

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.

From its first client, a bakery, Faction aims to expand into other metro areas this year.

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.

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.