Austin Russell, founder and CEO of Luminar, speaks at TC Sessions in San Mateo, California, in May 2022.Self-driving vehicles are a more formidable challenge to solve than many advocates for the technology anticipated. However, that’s not dampening the growth outlook for Luminar, which makes laser sensors autonomous vehicles need to see the world in three dimensions.
The company, based in Orlando, is also readying Iris+, a slimmer new version of its main lidar unit, that provides more detailed images of a vehicle’s surroundings at up to 300 meters and improved “collision avoidance of small objects at up to autobahn-level speeds,” the company said. Mass production of the sensor will be at Luminar’s highly automated Monterrey plant.
alum, has maintained a consistent view over the years that the technical challenges of training artificial intelligence to safely drive a vehicle in all conditions was unlikely to be solved until the 2030s. That view seemed to be endorsed last year by Ford and Volkswagen when they dissolved Argo AI, their joint-venture autonomous driving startup, because of little potential for significant revenue in the near term.
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