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Alain Servel

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Interview: Yole’s Pierrick Boulay on Car Lidar Market Trends

Pierrick Boulay is a Senior Technology and Market Analyst in the Photonics and Sensing Division at Yole Intelligence. He works in the fields of solid-state lighting, carrying out technical, economic, and marketing analyses. In addition, he leads the automotive activities within the company.Boulay has authored several reports and custom analyses on topics such as vehicle…

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NHTSA Proposes to Boost Pedestrian Safety—Night & Day

With 75 per cent of accidents with pedestrians happening at night, there is a need to improve the current AEB systems mostly designed for daylight conditions. Despite improvements in cameras and algorithms, NHTSA’s proposal is expected to result in future vehicles using a wider range of sensors.In a recent white paper, VSI-Labs senior partner and…

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L3 Automated Driving in BMW 7: Coming Next Spring

Level 3 highly automated driving, which allows drivers to take their hands off the steering wheel and divert their attention away from the road, will soon be available, in Germany only, as a €6,000 option in the new BMW 7 Series (except the i7 eDrive50 and i7 M70 xDrive), with new-car installations beginning next March.This…

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AEye’s New In-Cabin Lidar is Performant, Design-Friendly

AEye’s 4Sight Flex is an ultra-compact, highly performant reference design for automotive in-cabin lidars. It is energy-efficient, too, enabling the next wave of L2+, L3, and L4 autonomy and safety features to be integrated in-cabin.The 4Sight Flex optimizes for various integration scenarios, including the windshield and roof, allowing automakerss to deliver maximum safety to customers…

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Innovusion, Exwayz Partner for Advanced Lidar Tech in Europe

Innovusion and Exwayz, a software company developing positioning solutions based on lidar Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) technology, have agreed a partnership to provide SLAM technology to clients across Europe.The ultralong-range lidar sensor greatly benefits the Exwayz SLAM solution. Each lidar frame fed into the Exwayz solution contains accurate, long-distance features and dense ground measurements…

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Magna’s New Front Camera Module Commercialized

Magna announced the production start of their innovative Gen5 front camera module system for a European automaker. The high-volume business award will support various platforms across regions and vehicle models over the next few years. Magna leveraged their market-leading camera expertise and global manufacturing processes to develop a scalable, one-box front camera module for the…

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AD Newsbites

The German automotive industry has recently achieved a significant milestone in automated driving. After a four-year collaborative effort involving 21 partners, the industry has unveiled the world’s first framework for validating and verifying safety standards for AVs in urban settings. This initiative, backed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action. The consortium…

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DVN-L Interview: FKA’s Adrian Zlocki on Automotive Lidar Standards

Adrian Zlocki has been in charge of automated driving activities at FKA since 2012. Before that, he headed the company’s coöperative AD activities with Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University, where he obtained his PhD in automotive engineering. His experience in the field goes back at least as far as 2004, and he enthusiastically shared his…

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