Volvo is on the cusp of launching its first automobile with LiDAR road-reading know-how, and it says this might make the electrical EX90 one of many most secure automobiles on the earth.
Talking to media at an occasion in Sweden, Volvo CEO Jim Rowan stated the most secure automobiles on the street are ones which have extra sensors – not much less, a transfer reverse to the likes of Tesla, which has slimmed its sensing suite down to only digital camera know-how.
“High of thoughts for us proper now and one of many issues we’ve achieved for nearly 100 years is security. And there’s no manner we’d compromise that in any respect,” stated Mr Rowan.
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Volvo CEO Jim Rowan with the EX90
“Proper now actually our roadmap exhibits us that you just want a mix of sensors, radars, cameras, and naturally, together with LIDAR. And if you wish to be, , the most secure automobile at this cut-off date, then we imagine you want all of these working in concord collectively.
“And we’ve got a staff of about 800 software program engineers that solely write the software program between the silicon and what we name that sensor set, which is the cameras and the LiDAR, and the entire sensor set software program is written by us. So many of the notion stack in addition to the sensor fusion which brings collectively all that totally different know-how.”
LiDAR is 3D imaging know-how that permits the automobile to interpret street knowledge as much as 200m forward of the automobile with unbelievable element. And most significantly of all, it doesn’t require mild to interpret the info.
Volvo owns a majority stake in Luminar, the corporate that manufactures the LiDAR know-how discovered on the brand new EX90, and it’s anticipated that over time the know-how will filter right down to extra inexpensive Volvo autos.
LiDAR will come customary on the EX90 and can staff with different sensors together with cameras, radar and ultrasonic sensors to provide the automobile a superior understanding of its environment.
Volvo will even transfer away from third celebration suppliers controlling and supplying all of the code that ties all of those programs collectively. The Swedish model is investing extra in writing their very own code stack that ties this {hardware} collectively to ensure future over-the-air updates are simpler to handle and deploy.
Electrical automobile model Polestar, owned by each Geely and Volvo, can be using LiDAR from Luminar in its upcoming Polestar 3 SUV and 5 grand tourer.
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