Hi Stable, do you, or any other forum members, have any thoughts on Luminar technologies? there was an announcement linking them to Mercedes for supply of Lidar sensors last month so I found the timing interesting. I did have a look on HC and found some old 2019 mentions of them but nothing more. In addition, there was another announcement last month that Volvo have partnered with Luminar also. I have not had the chance to dig any deeper yet (and it may all be coincidence) but it is definitely on my to do list.
Hi Stable, do you, or any other forum members, have any thoughts on Luminar technologies? there was an announcement linking them to Mercedes for supply of Lidar sensors last month so I found the timing interesting. I did have a look on HC and found some old 2019 mentions of them but nothing more. In addition, there was another announcement last month that Volvo have partnered with Luminar also. I have not had the chance to dig any deeper yet (and it may all be coincidence) but it is definitely on my to do list.
I have not read about Luminar but I keep in mind CEO Sean Hehir’s statement that AKIDA will be the foundation of all edge computing. A pretty big statement but I can see the logic behind it.
Mercedes like all automakers have a range of vehicles across a range of markets and price ranges.
The Lidar system we saw Valeo demonstrate is clearly high end and aimed squarely at the ADAS to AV market.
Existing Mercedes already have radar and Lidar sensors of varying degrees of sophistication and doing many different things from parking warning to is there someone in the vehicle so it is anyones bet how many suppliers they have. Bosch is definitely a supplier to Mercedes.
To an extent Sean Hehir’s statement and AKIDA technologies scalability and five senses processing has almost caused me to give up looking because Brainchip can be everywhere.
When I was deep diving in the Valeo space I found they have built electric Covid buses to bring their employees to work in Germany. One feature of these buses is an air scrubbing system that also detects Covid on the spot. These buses are prototypes and not for general release YET.
Anyway with the secrecy in play who knows none of us got Socionext, Renesas or MegaChips.
Uiux picked up on NASA, Valeo and almost Mercedes. Ford was a fifty fifty pick because it was either them or GM in Detroit.
Professor Barry Marshall stated Ai would change the face of medicine over the next 20 years to a point where it will be unrecognisable.
So don’t write off any company but also don’t expect to find the smoking gun either.
My opinion only DYOR
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AKIDA BALLISTA