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Will Robotaxis Be an Emerging Market Soon?

November 6, 2024

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…

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FMCW, ToF Lidars Grapple for Market Share

October 2, 2024

Mobileye will shut down their FMCW lidar development unit by year’s end, lurching around 100 employees. It’s because the company now considers FMCW lidar ‘less essential’ for achieving L3 eyes-off…

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Lidar Market Dynamics: Will the US Be Part of the Game?

September 4, 2024

The USA is leading the global lidar business, but the US automotive lidar companies—Cepton, Luminar, AEye, and Aeva—are lagging behind strong competitors like Hesai, Robosense, and Valeo. Some of the…

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Semi-Autonomous Drive With Pure-Vision System: A Neverending Story

August 7, 2024

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…

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Why Lidar is So Important in China

July 3, 2024

Here you see the Aito M7, a car from Huawei and Seres, equipped with a lidar on the roof. All Aito models have Huawei lidar. Is Lidar growth in China…

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Low-Cost Lidar Is Coming!

June 5, 2024

Low-cost lidars are soon to arrive. Robosense announced their new MX lidar platform will enter mass production in mid-2025 with a price of about USD $200. MX has an adjustable…

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Lamp Lidar Integration: A Great Opportunity for Short Range Lidar?

May 8, 2024

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,…

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Editorial: Generalist Automakers Also Invest in Lidar Tech

April 3, 2024

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…

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Shift and Drift: Lidar Suppliers’ Competitive Positions

March 6, 2024

What did 2023 show us about the competitive positions of lidar suppliers? Quite a lot of shift and drift! Robosense and Hesai grew into high-volume suppliers, securing significant market share…

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L2+ and L3 is Ramping Up Fast; Tectonic Shift in Lidar Industry

February 7, 2024

We saw at CES how the L2+ and L3 automated driving market is heating up fast. Mobileye, for example, announced cumulative orders for an expected lifetime volume of 3.65 million…

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Will Robotaxis Be an Emerging Market Soon?

FMCW, ToF Lidars Grapple for Market Share

Lidar Market Dynamics: Will the US Be Part of the Game?

Semi-Autonomous Drive With Pure-Vision System: A Neverending Story

Why Lidar is So Important in China

Low-Cost Lidar Is Coming!

Lamp Lidar Integration: A Great Opportunity for Short Range Lidar?

Editorial: Generalist Automakers Also Invest in Lidar Tech

Shift and Drift: Lidar Suppliers’ Competitive Positions

L2+ and L3 is Ramping Up Fast; Tectonic Shift in Lidar Industry

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