Editorial · September 2022
In today’s edition of DVN-Lidar, we bring you ongoing coverage of interesting news about the increasing adoption of automotive lidar, as well as information about how we’re working to further develop the DVN lidar community.
As we keep vigilant watch over the industry to keep you well informed, we’re seeing more and more announcements of collaboration among automakers, tier-1s, and lidar system suppliers. This gives the distinct impression that lidar market introductions and adoption rates will ramp up significantly over the next three years. As outlined already in earlier newsletters, the driving force is competition between legacy and new automakers actively jockeying to create and leverage competitive advantage by commercializing improved ADAS and L3 functionality.
Examples covered in today’s newsletter include GM and Cepton cooperating on long-range lidar integration; ZKW and Cepton working on short-range lidar integration in truck headlamps, and VW and Innoviz agreeing to collaborate for lidar implementation on car models from 2025.
With the galloping development of lidar applications for ADAS and AD, we at DVN are working hard to further strengthen the lidar community. We’re pleased to announce Eric Amiot as a new DVN Lidar team member. Amiot will bring to DVN his long experience in the automotive industry, especially when he was responsible for Valeo’s ADAS business development in Europe and Asia. Read his interview to learn more about his background and get his insights on the lidar market as linked to ADAS and AD.
In less than a week, the first DVN-Lidar Workshop will take place! It’s on 12-13 September at the Dorint hotel Frankfurt Sulzbach. You’ll find details today about this intensive workshop. There’ll be presentations from the likes of Ford; Microvision; AMS Osram, and Fraunhofer IMS. We’ll have a lecture by DVN senior advisor (formerly Audi’s head of lighting and vision) Wolfgang Huhn, about sensor integration in headlamps.
Don’t forget to save the dates for our 5th DVN Lidar conference on 30 November and 1 December in Wiesbaden! The whole DVN team is working hard to make it a grand, worthy event!!
We’re ever so glad you’re here with us in the DVN Lidar community. Enjoy this September newsletter!
All best,
Alain Servel
DVN LIDAR ADVISOR