Lidar technology that drives fully autonomous vehicles and ADAS continues to advance, spurred by improvements in price, performance and reliability.
Here we present takeaways of an Automotive News interview with Hesai VP of Sales Bob in den Bosch:
“Lidar technology is a critical safety and navigation component for the future of all vehicles. The autonomous vehicle market is continuing to grow, as we see several of our robotaxi and robotruck customers, like Zoox and Aurora, have already started or have plans for commercial operations in the U.S. and around the world. We expect that lidar orders from automotive OEMs will grow into millions of units in the next few years.
“A major push focuses on enhancing the aesthetics of our sensors to better align with the needs of consumers and their vehicle brands. This shift has resulted in reduced sensor size, solid-state sensors and innovations such as moving small new sensors behind the windshield.
“Autonomous vehicles and ADAS markets are growing, and we continue to invest in both. Many of Hesai’s most recent technology investments in reliable and low-cost lidar sensor manufacturing at scale, while crucial to the mass ADAS market, are certainly beneficial to robotaxi applications as well.
“Hesai is the first lidar company to ship over 200,000 sensors and has secured more than 11 OEM wins for lidar in ADAS, with 6 OEMs placing large-scale orders this year. Hesai made many investments to lower sensor costs without compromising on performance and reliability.
“Hesai is capable of producing more than one million units per year and has pioneered design improvements that reduce the costs of both producing sensors and delivering them in large volumes. These design improvements include advanced miniaturization, integration of system components and core sensor platforms that can be leveraged and rapidly combined to serve numerous applications”.
