"Lidar startup Luminar announced today that it’s received $100 million in new funding, as the company also introduced Iris, an autonomous platform that it expects to bring to production vehicles by 2022 — for less than $1,000.
Luminar says its new Iris platform will launch commercially on production vehicles starting in 2022. It boasts that Iris is “the first sensing platform to exceed the essential performance, safety, cost, and auto-grade requirements needed to deliver Level 3 and 4 autonomy to consumers."
Lidar startup Luminar gets $100M in funding, sub-$1,000 Iris platform set for production cars by 2022 - Electrek
I like the price and I also really like that the LIDAR is not bulky either. it seems like a great solution. If it works, there really won't be any excuse not to add LIDAR on FSD cars.
This could really help bring full self-driving to mass market production cars. I could see companies like Waymo and Cruise using Luminar to bring their FSD to cars in a more compact package.
I am also intrigued by the idea in the article of the LIDAR set as an after market addition. Would it be possible to add it to a Tesla as an after market solution to improve reliability if Tesla does not?
Luminar says its new Iris platform will launch commercially on production vehicles starting in 2022. It boasts that Iris is “the first sensing platform to exceed the essential performance, safety, cost, and auto-grade requirements needed to deliver Level 3 and 4 autonomy to consumers."
Lidar startup Luminar gets $100M in funding, sub-$1,000 Iris platform set for production cars by 2022 - Electrek
I like the price and I also really like that the LIDAR is not bulky either. it seems like a great solution. If it works, there really won't be any excuse not to add LIDAR on FSD cars.
This could really help bring full self-driving to mass market production cars. I could see companies like Waymo and Cruise using Luminar to bring their FSD to cars in a more compact package.
I am also intrigued by the idea in the article of the LIDAR set as an after market addition. Would it be possible to add it to a Tesla as an after market solution to improve reliability if Tesla does not?