The end of Daylight Saving (or Summer) Time is nigh, and the shift to Standard (Winter) Time means more drivers will be driving more
During the first half of fiscal 2019 (1 April to 30 September of 2018), the Japanese auto industry’s production volume decreased relative
VW, Mobileye, and Champion Motors have joined forces to focus on the deployment of self-driving vehicles. The VW Group will provide
Lidar technology developers Quanergy and Innovusion have received new funding to boost their technology development and products production.
Volvo Cars and Chinese internet giant Baidu have teamed up to develop and mass produce self-driving electric cars in China, the two firms
U.S. light-vehicle sales, behind strong light-truck demand and elevated incentives, edged up 0.1% in October, signaling the second-half
In the past two years, more than USD $800m has been invested in lidar companies.
Some companies, despite being created only a few years ago,
have received millions in investments: Quanergy, launched in 2012, received $180m in 2017; and Blackmore, founded in 2016, recently received $18m from BMW and Toyota—very impressive input.
And things are equally impressive on the output side. Most current products, such as those proposed by Velodyne, use a macro-mechanical scanning of laser beams at wavelengths of 830–940 nm. But MEMS scanners are foreseen as the next evolution of automotive lidar, promising to be smaller and cheaper. Then the subsequent step may very well be the optical phased array proposed by Quanergy. This technology stems from fibre-optic communications. It’s got no moving parts, which suggests it’ll be cheaper, smaller, and more robust.
“We in the Volkswagen brand have always prioritised implementing technical innovations quickly in series production, even in the mid-sized and small vehicle
It was a top-flight docket of lectures at the recent VISION Congress, and Audi Head of Tail Light Development Michael Kruppa’s talk has been crowned
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