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Volkswagen wants to put fully self-driving cars in fully human-filled cities by 2021, and that means it has limited time to crack the hardest thing about this technology: making a robot that can understand its surroundings in precise detail. Get perception right—know what’s a kid and what’s a fire hydrant—and the other pieces of the robo-driving puzzle get a whole lot easier. And today, the division of VW tasked with delivering on that 2021 deadline just revealed a key part of luminar lidar Crack Key For U approach.

Audi AID (that’s Autonomous Intelligent Driving) today announced that it is partnering with lidar maker Luminar. AID considered offerings from the dozens of lidar companies, but it was ultimately won over by how far the Luminar lidar sees—about 250 meters—and how good its resolution is.

“The range is pretty amazing on the Luminar sensor,” says Alexandre Haag, AID’s CTO. That’s key for having plenty of time to reach to obstacles up ahead. Resolution is what lets the computer identify that obstacle as another vehicle, pedestrian, or cyclist.

Since this summer, AID has been running its Munich-based luminar lidar Crack Key For U of autonomous E-golfs (about a dozen strong, and soon to be replaced with Audi E-trons) with two roof-mounted forward-facing Luminar lidars, luminar lidar Crack Key For U. Each lidar peppers a 120-degree field of view with millions of laser points a second, measuring how long they take to come back to build a 3D map of the world around the car. Because Luminar fires those pulses of light at the 1550-nanometer wavelength instead of the typical 905 luminar lidar Crack Key For U, it can put more power into each shot without worrying about damaging human eyeballs. That lets it see especially far. (The fleet’s sensing system also uses cameras, radars, and a short-range, non-Luminar, lidar built into the bumper,)

Audi drivers could get the benefit of Luminar’s work before AID launches any full-on robo-cars. The automaker restricts Traffic Jam Pilot, its version of Tesla’s Autopilot system, to 37 mph. Any faster, it reasons, and it can’t be sure the car’s short-range lidar will be able to spot trouble up ahead (like, say, a stopped fire truck). “For the next step of increasing the speed, Audi will need something like a Luminar,” Haag says. Right now, that’d be tricky: Lidar sensors are expensive. Robo-cars working in a taxi fleet, which is what AID has in mind, can amortize that cost. It’s a tougher sell for vehicles going to individual consumers. But the Silicon Valley supplier is working to drive down its costs. “The point is to get into series production cars,” says CEO Austin Russell.

What’s sure, though, is that with their eyeballs secured, AID’s 150-person team can focus its efforts on cracking the rest of the self-driving problem, which includes interpreting those laser returns into an understanding of the world. 2021 is coming up fast, but the German engineers must now have a better view of the finish line.

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 Luminar, a Palo Alto, California-based developer of lidar sensors and software for use with autonomous vehicles, has announced the recruitment of two veterans from Tesla and Intel respectively.

Intel and Tesla veterans

Alan Prescott, who was previously Tesla’s top lawyer in his role as General Counsel, has joined as Luminar’s Chief Legal Officer. Alongside Tesla, he has extensive industry experience at both Uber and Ford Motor Company.

Austin Russell, Founder and CEO of Luminar, said: “He understands the challenges and nuances of operating in both the autonomous driving space and in the automotive industry more broadly, and we look forward to his insights and expertise as we continue to scale our business and accelerate the expansion of our product and commercial roadmaps.”

Also joining to lead Luminar’s Investor Relations is Trey Campbell, previously of tech giant Intel as its Vice President of Investor Relations. Tom Fennimore, Chief Financial Officer at Luminar, said: “Trey’s strong leadership and communication experience as well as long-standing relationships with the financial community will help tremendously as we spearhead the industry, creating shareholder value and taking Luminar to the next level.”

The autonomous vehicle lidar debate

Lidar technology is used in the majority of driverless cars, but Tesla in its own vehicles. In short, the technology is the visual equivalent of radar, measuring distances by shining a laser onto a surface and sensing its reflection. Aside from its use in autonomous vehicles, the technology was first developed for use in processes such as surveying.

Luminar says it partners with seven of the ten largest automotive manufacturers to aid their autonomous driving efforts, and has signed a product deal with Volvo. Last year the company went Kaspersky Total Security 2021 License key Crack via a $3.4bn involving a merger and investment from the likes of Peter Thiel, Volvo and Gores Metropoulos.

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Volvo Cars, a global leader in #automotive safety, is setting new safety and technology standards by partnering with tech firm Luminar to provide their industry-leading LiDAR and perception technology for Volvo’s next generation cars.

The partnership will deliver Volvo’s first fully self-driving technology for highways and paves the way for future active safety developments.

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In addition to the Highway Pilot feature, Volvo Cars and Luminar are also exploring LiDAR’s role in improving future advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), with the potential for equipping all future SPA2-based cars with a LiDAR sensor as standard.

Luminar’s technology is based on its high performance LiDAR sensors, which emit millions of pulses of laser light to accurately detect where objects are by scanning the environment in 3D, creating a temporary, real-time map without requiring internet connectivity.

LiDAR is key in creating cars that can navigate safely in autonomous mode, providing them with the reliable vision and perception that cameras and radar alone cannot provide. LiDAR is the ideal basis for safe decision-making in complex environments at high speeds.

To enable the Highway Pilot feature, Luminar’s perception technology will be combined with autonomous drive software and the cameras, radars and back-up systems for functions such as steering, braking and battery power installed on forthcoming Volvo cars equipped for self-driving, luminar lidar Crack Key For U. Put together, this gives Volvo users who want it access to a safe, fully self-driving feature for use on highways.

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As part of the announcement, Volvo Cars and Luminar are deepening their collaboration to jointly ensure robust industrialisation and validation of Luminar’s LiDAR technology for series production. Volvo Cars has also signed an agreement to possibly increase its minority stake in Luminar.

For Silicon Valley-based Luminar, partnering with Volvo Cars represents the company’s first delivery of its technology into series production. This is a key step to achieving the economies of scale that are required to bring the technology to the wider #automotive industry.

“Volvo is recognised as the pioneer of #automotive safety, having driven standardisation across the industry for the most advanced life-saving technologies,” said Austin Russell, founder and CEO of Luminar. “The next era of safety lies within autonomous driving and once again, Volvo has taken the lead with a major industry milestone. We’ve solved the key cost, performance, and auto-grade challenges to make series production possible, luminar lidar Crack Key For U, and alongside Volvo are making the technology available to the world.”