Editorial

The 7th DVN Lidar Conference on 18-19 November in Wiesbaden gathered 150 people including automaker representatives, exhibitors, and 33 speakers. It was, yet again, the top ultra forum to get…

Waymo is scaling up; they’ve closed a USD $5.6bn investment round, led by Alphabet. This funding aims to accelerate the growth of Waymo One ride-hailing services and improve the Waymo…

XPeng has released images of their latest EV, the P7+, which features camera-based self-driving technology. It’s at L2+, so roughly at the (actual) level of Tesla’s vision-only systems. The company…

At the Beijing Auto Show, Hesai and Marelli showed a concept with lidars in headlamps. This concept is not new, but so far is not a commonly-deployed strategy; so far,…

Mobileye and Volkswagen are about to launch driving functions with enhanced L2 capabilities (‘partially automated’ driving), and are developing L3 functions (‘highly automated’ driving). Volkswagen will also apply these features…