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Shift and Drift: Lidar Suppliers’ Competitive Positions

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…

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

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…

‘Navigation on Autopilot’ Makes Lidar Attractive in China

In China, demand for ‘Navigation On Autopilot’—NOA—has become a key driver of the automotive lidar market. That’s because of lidar’s unique high-resolution capability in urban environments. It’s a bit ironic…

2024: The Year Lidar Breaks Out

With 160 participants, our 6th DVN Lidar conference was a great success. One key message: lidar is rapidly entering its mass-production era. Yole forecasts over a million units per year…

Lidar Production: Upward and Upward!

Automotive lidar volumes are growing exponentially, and efficient manufacturing technologies are a major driver of that happy trend. So this month’s issue of your DVN-Lidar Newsletter focuses on rising lidar…

Lidar Innovations On the Market and In the Pipeline

Great lidar breakthroughs are under development for commercialization in the foreseeable future, and meanwhile new innovations are here now, with more coming every day. A new solid state beam-steering technology…

Ready for large-scale deployment robotaxis

This month’s DVN-Lidar Newsletter brings focus on robotaxis. They’re sprouting all over—in China (Toyota + Pony; Didi + Xpeng, Baidu + Geely), and in the USA, where Waymo and Cruise…

Everything’s Coming Up Lidar!

This lidar-heavy month might look like the new pace of business as usual in the lidar world. A new L3 system with lidar is coming on the market, with the…

Lidar is Crucial For Autonomous-Drive Applications

When we met with Valeo’s autonomous-driving research and innovation director Benezouz Bradaï at the ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle Technology Expo in Stuttgart, that’s what he told us: lidar is a…

Winners Use Lidar After All!

Everyone whose opinion counts on the matter knows lidar is central; crucial; indispensable, and utterly necessary for an effective, safe, real autonomous vehicle. Tesla CEO Elon Musk disagrees; he says…

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