With 160 participants, our 6th DVN Lidar conference was a great success. One key message: lidar is rapidly entering its mass-production era. Yole forecasts over a million units per year in 2024—read more about that in this week’s interview—which is in line with the current volumes reported by major suppliers in China including Robosense, Innovusion, and Hesai; each of them is selling more than 20,000 sensors a month already.
It is clear that the leading application for lidar will be for advanced L2+ ADAS features; L3 autonomous driving will come later, for its deployment is quite a bit more difficult.
Another boost to the lidar market might come from American regulators, who are working on regulations to make AEB testing more stringent, especially in complete darkness as pedestrian fatalities due to traffic violence keep rising in the USA. You’ll find detailed coverage of that development this week, as well.
We’ve got a full slate of DVN-Lidar events in store for 2024; you’ll want to save the dates:
- Deep Dive 1 in Stuttgart (8-9 April)
- Deep Dive 2 in China (tbc, 11-12 June)
- Deep Dive 3 in Detroit (11-12 September)
- Lidar Conference in Wiesbaden (18-19 November)
We’re ever so glad you’re here with us in the DVN-Lidar community. Enjoy this week’s newsletter!
All best,
Alain Servel
DVN LIDAR ADVISOR