Luminar Technologies’ lidar solution has been selected to be part of the sensor suite in the Nvidia Drive Hyperion autonomous vehicle reference platform. This AI vehicle computing platform accelerates development of autonomous consumer vehicles with planned production starting in 2024. By offering automakers a qualified, complete sensor suite featuring Luminar’s lidar solution on top of Nvidia’s centralized high-performance compute and AI software, Drive Hyperion provides everything needed to develop production autonomous vehicles.
Drive Hyperion will use one forward-facing long-range Luminar Iris lidar in its L3 highway driving configuration. The Iris’ custom lidar architecture is designed to meet the most stringent performance, safety and automotive-grade requirements to provide excellent safety as well as assisted and autonomous driving on production vehicles.
Luminar founder and CEO Austin Russell says “Nvidia has led the modern compute revolution, and the industry sees them as doing the same with autonomous driving. The common thread between our two companies is that our technologies are becoming the de facto solution for major automakers to enable next-generation safety and autonomy. By taking advantage of our respective strengths, automakers have access to the most advanced autonomous vehicle development platform”.
And Nvidia senior VP of engineering Gary Hicok says his company’s collaboration with Luminar “bolsters the Drive ecosystem of companies that are focused on building best-in-class technologies for enabling autonomous driving functionalities; Luminar is pioneering a unique, scalable solution that complements the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion platform”.