Mobility

A chaotic market for one sensor stalls self-driving cars

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Japanese lighting giant Koito is working with Cepton to integrate a lidar system into a headlight.
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PAUL LIENERT and BEN KLAYMAN
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Reuters
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March 06, 2019 09:17 PM

With the notable exception of Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc , most automakers have said their self-driving cars will rely on a detection system known as lidar. The state of the art sensors use laser light pulses to render precise images of the environment around the car.

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