The absence in the market of compact and affordable optical sensors that determine the distance to objects, significantly hinders the diffusion of technology autopilot in the automotive industry.
ZF company has already announced its intention to finance the development of lidar Ibeo the next generation, a cheap, compact and reliable. I must say that investors are not averse to capitalize on these developments. For example, according to EE Times website, Innoviz Technologies young Israeli company managed to get $ 9 million. On the development of a group of investors.
Founded originally from Israeli military intelligence this year, Innoviz Technologies is developing a solid-state high-resolution lidar, which is superior to the existing analogues both in coverage corner, and in object recognition range. Compared to competitors' products, the lidar will be more compact and relatively cheap - the cost will not exceed $ 100 in mass production. Prototypes of the device will be presented later this year.