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Infotainment Worse Than Alcohol for Driver Performance
Drivers’ reaction times are worsened vastly more by using in-car infotainment systems than by being at the legal alcohol limit or being high on cannabis, according to a new study. Experts at the U.K. Transport Research Laboratory, in conjunction with U.K.-based road safety charity IAM RoadSmart, found the world’s two major infotainment platforms place enormous…
Melco’s Mini MEMS AV Lidar
Melco (Mitsubishi Electric) have announced a compact new lidar solution incorporating a MEMS to achieve an extra-wide horizontal scanning angle to accurately detect the shapes and distances of objects ahead in autonomous driving systems. The initial offering has a volume of 900 cm3, with a miniaturisation target of 350 cm3. The new lidar irradiates objects…
Toshiba & Toshiba Show Lidar Up To 200 Metres
Toshiba and Toshiba Device & Storage announced at ISSCC 2020 their latest high performance SoC lidar capable of measuring more than 200 metres for longer-range lidar systems. The SoC achieves two times more pixels than its predecessor model announced in 2018. This time the SoC has 240 horizontal and 192 vertical pixels for 10 frames…
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Koito’s BladeScan is Very Good, Still Faces Challenges
As a variety of makers develop a variety of high-resolution headlighting technologies including µLEDs, DMD, and LCS for advanced ADB, Koito are proposing an original solution based on a mechanical scanning system they call BladeScan. The main principle is to use a rotating mirror to spread the light horizontally, resulting in efficiency over 35%, compared…